Negotiations over a pro-union bill in the Colorado House collapsed over the weekend after labor officials rejected Gov. Jared Polis’ attempt to expand talks to include other deeply contentious pieces of legislation.
Democratic lawmakers on Monday instead pushed forward to pass the bill, potentially setting up a veto showdown.
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Loren Furman, the CEO of the Colorado Chamber of Commerce, confirmed Monday morning that business groups rejected Polis’ last proposal. It would have eliminated the second election in certain circumstances, based on election turnout and union organizers’ margin of victory in the first election, which is what establishes the union in the first place. She said the groups stuck to their final of three compromises, which proposed higher thresholds than Polis offered and unions were willing to accept.
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