Posted on 04/10/2008 3:46:40 PM PDT by george76
Proponents deliver their petitions to the secretary of state a day early.
A right-to-work ballot measure cleared another obstacle Wednesday as backers turned in almost twice as many signatures as needed to put the controversial issue on the ballot in November.
Delivering nearly two dozen boxes of petitions a day ahead of schedule, supporters of the initiative sent a clear signal they intend to press ahead with their campaign to outlaw arrangements that require nonunion workers to pay union fees ...
"This amendment will give Colorado workers the freedom to decide for themselves whether or not to join a union and protect the rights of all employees in the state."
Campaign spokesman Kelley Harp said the group collected 133,000 signatures, more than the roughly 75,000 required to put the measure on the November ballot.
Accompanied by Republican lawmakers who have tried to pass similar legislation in the past decade, campaign workers arrived to oversee the handoff of 22 boxes of signed petitions.
"This day has been a long time coming," said state Sen. Ted Harvey...
Harvey tried unsuccessfully seven times to pass a law that would have made Colorado a right-to- work state.
The United Food and Commercial Workers Union Local 7 entered the fray last week with five ballot proposals. They range from imposing annual cost-of-living increases for all workers to requiring employers to offer health coverage to all their workers.
Another labor coalition ...
(Excerpt) Read more at rockymountainnews.com ...
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Good Bye Colorado. What a most beautiful state too.
2008 is a last gasp for unions nationally.
They are desperate to elect a Dem president and pass “card check” (eliminating secret elections for union voting) and federally prohibit right-to-work state laws.
The vote will be to eliminate forced unions. That can only be viewed as good.
Dead union, good union
"Jonathan Coors, a descendant of Coors Brewing Co. founder Adolph Coors, is a key supporter of the group pushing the initiative.
"This is an exciting day for Colorado," Coors, director of CoorsTek, said in a statement. "This amendment will give Colorado workers the freedom to decide for themselves whether or not to join a union and protect the rights of all employees in the state."
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Right to work means open shop. I don’t have to join the union to get a job.
Idaho is a “Right to Work” state marketed in the same way.
Much as I dislike unions, right to work has been a mistake imo.
I understand that, I was responding to Poobear who apparently thinks loss of the closed shop in Colorado is bad.
We are getting hammered , so this is our temporary wall against the unions and their friends.
How is yours different ?
I’m all in favor of this, but today the Rocky came out against it on the theory that under existing law Colorado behaves like a right to work state, so we don’t need it. I was rather surprised.
Force unions is never a good thing.
Hello Colorado!; Soon to become a more beautiful State than ever, if the right-to-work bill goes through!
What union are you in?
RMN is with Hick and Ritter : saying no to everything ?
Too clever by half .
What took you Coloradoans so long??? It’s not exactly like NY or NJ where union labor is that entrenched in the workforce...
Please explain how not being forced to join a union in order to make your livelihood is a bad thing.
FWIW, my own father was a union business agent. He got so fed up with the internal union corruption that he "went back to work with the tools", and, eventually, actually worked on non-union jobs.
How, exactly has "...right to work ... been a mistake...."?
RTW hardly will destroy CO, it’s your CAL liberal problem that has nearly destroyed it!
Unions aren’t really the issue. Yes forcing people to join a union to work is bad. Before right to work nobody was really forced to join a union for employment anyways. That was a sham.
It has effected the low income earners more, and some middle class. Upper class educated high earning jobs have pretty much no effect, but strangely those jobs usually aren’t union jobs anyways so the “right to work” wouldn’t effect them anyways.
Work in fast food or minimum wage retail and you get to do fun things like close one night and open the next morning. That’s all fine and dandy once in a while, but a month of alternating open close open close open close and a normally sane person is run ragged trying to make a schedule of everything else. Don’t like it, fine get another job, but the next place you work is going to do the same thing because they can. It’s a right to work state afterall and the employee can quit anytime they want.
Then when you break out of minimum wage jobs and get into the non-minimum wage but non-skilled jobs (call centers and assembly lines) starting at a whopping 7 to 9 an hour. Eventually you’ll get to 10 or 11 an hour but your employer will fire you for no-cause because they don’t want to give you anymore raises. Then they replace you with someone else just starting for $7 an hour. You’re only recourse? Get yourself on unemployment for a fat weekly paycheck of half of what you were making or go find another job that also pays $7 replacing probably the guy that replaced you.
Once you finally get out of college and get that choice high paying job you get the fun time of finding out that in Idaho thanks to right to work wages are low and haven’t really kept pace with growth of cost of living. For a while it was a joke that an fresh degree could make $65K in Seattle to start, but in Idaho they’re lucky to get 40K, and yet again at any time your employer can fire you for no cause right about the time you get bumped up to 50K and hire yet another fresh degree noobie for 40K instead of giving you a raise.
Thanks right to work.
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