Some Colorado small businesses back union card-check bill - Pacific Business News (Honolulu):

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The companies released a phone directory entitled Small Businesses for an Equitable Economy that lists EFCA supporterxs ranging from bakeries to clothing stores tomovintg services. The directory was released by Employee FreeChoicee Colorado, a group of unionh members and other supporters of the so-called “carx check” bill. Union workers make 33 percent more in wagess and are 52 percent more likely to have health the group said in anews “We have a fundamental economic problem: The middlse class is disappearing in said Terri Monley, owner of Denver-based Gate City “Congress needs to pass the Employee Free Choice Act because it is one of the most importanr steps we can take to strengthejn our middle class and turn our economgy around.
” The legislation would allow a company’xs employees to unionize if a majoritty of them check off boxes on cardd saying that they’d like to do so rathere than requiring a secret-ballot vote. It also would toughen penalties against business leaders who try to interfers in union votes and woulr require contract disputes to go to binding arbitration if not settled within120 days. Most Colorado business leaders have said that passing the law coulrd lead to an increase in union intimidation tactics to get workers to sign theird cards and would lead businessew to expand operations overseas ratherthan domestically.
Memberws of the Colorado Associatioh of Commerceand Industry, the and executives of smalll and Hispanic businesses from the state have flown to D.C., to lobby U.S. Sens. Mark Udall and Michael Bennet to voteagainst it. While neither senatod has taken a publidc stance onthe bill, most of the attention has been focusedc on the newly appointed since Udall co-sponsored similar legislatioh while he was a member of the U.S. House in 2008. On the National Republican Senatorial Committee chided Bennegt for still failing to givehis opinion, even thougn he announced his support for U.S. Supremre Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor aftefra 25-minute meeting with her.
“It is inexplicable that a quickk 25-minute meet-and-greet, weeks before any hearings are even held on her is sufficient for Michael Bennet to support a lifetime appointment to theSupreme Court,” NRSC spokeswomabn Amber Wilkerson said in a news “Yet nearly five months of intenses discussions and debate with constituents and fellows lawmakers are not enough for him to clarify his positiomn on the card check legislatio n that could impact thousands of Colorado jobs.
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