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Ballot Initiative Update: CO - Amendment #47

Submitted by Matt Moon on Mon, 06/23/2008 - 12:42
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Certified for the November ballot in Colorado is Amendment 47, the Colorado Right to Work Initiative.

The clear choice is to vote "YES" on 47. Prospective workers should never be forced to join a union in order to be employed; they should also not be forced to pay dues that support partisan political operations without their consent.  The future of the conservative movement should not be completely anti-union: workers should still have the right to organize a union, strike, and bargain collectively. But the fact is that compulsory union membership fosters both corruption and a bad business climate.

A group called "A Better Colorado" has been supporting this initiative. But the unions aren't going down without a fight. United Food and Commercial Workers Union Local 7 has filed 5 retaliatory ballot initiatives; this includes mandating full coverage health insurance for companies with 20 or more employees, increasing the valuation of non-residential property assessments for property taxes, mandating an annual "cost-of-living" wage increase, and requiring "safe and healthy workplaces" .... without actually defining "safe" and "healthy".

Bottom line: Support CO - Amendment 47. It's not anti-union. It's anti-monopolistic unions and pro-worker rights

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Any links?

Submitted by Brian Devine on Mon, 06/23/2008 - 14:15.

Do you have any links for background and additional information outside of the state website and the group's thats objective in nature? 

More links

Submitted by Matt Moon on Mon, 06/23/2008 - 15:48.

The National Right-to-Work Committee has more info on the Colorado initiative here.

A Denver Business Journal article on the certification of the initiative can be found here.

 

Thanks

Submitted by Brian Devine on Mon, 06/23/2008 - 16:25.

Thanks

there's a pragmatic problem with this

Submitted by Ironman on Mon, 06/23/2008 - 21:29.

like the Labor Unions had any more incentive to go ballistic in this election cycle

I hope this does not turn out like Arnold's ballot questions in '05 but I could see that happening...with McCain and Schaffer going down as well  

You aren't making sense

Submitted by UPSguy on Thu, 07/03/2008 - 22:04.

You aren't making sense here.

This isn't about worker's rights because workers already have the right not to join a union in Colorado under the Colorado Peace Act. I prefer to keep things at the local level, so why do we need outside interests meddling in Colorado affairs? We already have a law on the books. More likely this is about Corporate interests since workers traditionally make less in right to work states, thus corporations and their CEOs can make more. I'm against outside interests spending millions of dollars in our state to lower overall wages and benefits.

I'm going to vote no on this one.

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