The bill would grant roughly 40,000 county government employees the right to unionize by alex_burness
After threatening its introduction for months, Colorado Democrats have finally debuted what would arguably be the most significant pro-labor legislation in this state in years.
It’s the product of a lengthy process that began with Democratic lawmakers and labor advocates saying they’d work to get these rights to all 250,000-plus workers in Colorado’s public sector, who generally do not enjoy the same union rights of those in the private sector. Facing opposition from Democratic Gov.
The bill’s other lead sponsor, Senate President Steve Fenberg, said they were “stuck between many different interests and demands,” which is why their bill is limited to county workers. He and Esgar both said they believe every worker deserves a union if they want one. Crucially, those terms don’t include the right to strike, nor require binding arbitration as a way to settle contract disputes. Some in labor felt like those concessions went too far. Alex Wolf-Root, an adjunct professor at the University of Colorado Boulder and vice president of Communications Workers of America Local 7799, was among many in higher education who saw the concessions as a poison pill — which is why higher education ultimately came out of the bill.
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