After about three months of negotiations, the future of union organizing in Colorado remains fuzzy as the 2025 lawmaking term slowly winds down.
At stake is a roughly 80-year-old requirement in the Colorado Labor Peace Act that requires 75% of workers at a company to sign off before a union can begin discussions with an employer over union security. That’s when workers are forced to pay collective bargaining representation fees whether they are in a union or not.
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Loren Furman, president and CEO of the Colorado Chamber of Commerce, said the business community has offered three proposals to labor that would reduce the 75% threshold required for the union security vote and compress the timeframe between the simple majority vote to form a union and the vote over whether to begin negotiations over union security.
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