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DENVER – The Colorado Chamber today released the following statement in response to Senate Bill 5 passing in the House Committee on Business Affairs and Labor. The bill seeks to remove key provisions of the Labor Peace Act and disrupt the balance that has been achieved between business and labor groups on collective bargaining.
“We’re disappointed that lawmakers moved forward a proposal that lacks balance and threatens Colorado’s competitiveness,” said Colorado Chamber President and CEO Loren Furman. “We have made good faith offers to try and find a pathway to improve SB 5, but all of those proposals have been rejected by labor groups. We stand by respecting employee choice and want to ensure that a small minority of workers can’t make a decision on behalf of everyone at a workplace to pay mandatory union dues.”
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The Colorado Chamber of Commerce champions free enterprise, a healthy business environment and economic prosperity for all Coloradans. It is the only business association that works to improve the business climate for all sizes of business from a statewide, multi-industry perspective. What the Colorado Chamber accomplishes is good for all businesses, and that’s good for the state’s economy. It was created in 1965 based on the merger with the Colorado Manufacturers’ Association.