DBJ: Business group tallies legislative wins in regulatory reform effort
Ahead of the 2025 state Legislative session, the Colorado Chamber of Commerce outlined three areas where it hoped to curtail business regulation. Four bills backed by the group have passed in the state legislature and await the governor’s signature.
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Colorado Sun: Colorado union and business leaders can’t reach deal on Labor Peace Act, so Democrats will test Jared Polis’ veto pen
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% 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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Chaffee County Times: Leon, Drexler, DeWalt advance to state Civics Bee
Buena Vista held its third-annual Civics Bee at the American Legion Post 55 Sunday afternoon, with Buena Vista Middle School student Zachary Leon taking first place in the competition, Benjamin Drexler of Darren Patterson Christian Academy placing second and Jordan DeWalt of DPCA placing third.
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Colorado Sun: Colorado job openings up
Job growth may be slowing in Colorado but for some reason, there’s been an uptick in job openings, according to a quarterly update by Aspen Technology Labs for the Colorado Chamber of Commerce Foundation.
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CPR: With union and business leaders unable to reach deal on Labor Peace Act, Colorado Democrats will test Jared Polis’ veto pen
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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Colorado Newsline: Colorado House gives initial OK to bill that would ease union formation despite veto threat
Loren Furman, the president of the Colorado Chamber of Commerce, rejected that characterization. Business groups including Colorado Concern and the Denver Metro Chamber of Commerce were also involved in talks. She said the chamber offered three ideas that labor interests didn’t agree to, and that chamber’s members couldn’t agree to the “creative proposals” that the governor’s office came up with, one of which she said would have bifurcated small and large businesses in the matter.
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Denver Post: Colorado House advances labor bill after negotiations collapse with business leaders, Gov. Jared Polis
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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Denver Gazette: Colorado labor, allies frame bill as fight over unionization; business says it’s about dues on non-union members
“To be clear, the business community has been fully engaged and has negotiated in good faith with union officials since November on this issue,” said a statement from business trade groups that include Colorado Concern, the Colorado Chamber of Commerce, the Denver Metro Chamber of Commerce, and the Colorado Restaurant Association.
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Denver 7: Colorado’s 2025 legislative session comes to an end Wednesday
Negotiations that Gov. Jared Polis pushed for broke down between labor and business groups. Colorado Chamber President and CEO Loren Furman said business groups came to the table with “reasonable proposals” but said they were rejected.
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