Colorado’s union and business leaders announced Saturday that after months of negotiations, they have failed to reach a deal on the future of the Labor Peace Act, setting up a high-stakes showdown between Democrats in the legislature and Gov. Jared Polis.
It’s been nearly a month since there was any legislative action on Senate Bill 5, which would abolish a requirement in the Colorado Labor Peace Act that 75 percent of workers at a company sign off before unions can negotiate with businesses over union security. Union security is the term for when workers are forced to pay fees for collective bargaining representation — whether or not they are members of their workplace’s union.
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Loren Furman, president and CEO of the Colorado Chamber of Commerce, previously said the business community offered three proposals to labor that would reduce the 75 percent threshold required for the union security vote and shorten the time between the simple majority vote to form a union and the vote over whether to begin negotiations over union security.
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