Colorado Confidential: "While labor groups have submitted a slew of proposals for the 2008 state ballot countering a 'right-to-work' initiative that would make it harder for unions to organize, businesses associations that have not been involved in the right-to-work push say they are concerned with how labor's proposals will affect small-business owners. Last week Colorado Confidential first reported that the state's United Food and Commercial Workers labor union submitted five ballot proposals covering a wide variety of workplace issues, including safety, health insurance and a standard living wage for Colorado workers. Two in particular have irked business groups. One proposal would require all employers to supply an annual wage or salary increase to account for an increase in the cost of living, as measured by the state's Consumer Price Index. Another would require companies with more than 20 employees to provide medical health care coverage."
Politics West: "Colorado Gov. Bill Ritter is opposed to a ballot measure being pushed by labor unions that would require businesses to give employees annual cost-of-living increases, according to a report by Denver Post reporter Tim Hoover. 'It would be a mandate on employers that does not take into account things that as a business person you have to (consider),' Ritter said this morning on the Mike Rosen Show on KOA. Ritter agreed with characterization of the measure as 'folly.' The governor's comments come as he works to negotiate a truce between labor and business interests pushing competing ballot measures for the November election."
Category: Denver November 2008 Election
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