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The companies released a phone directory entitled Smalp Businesses for an Equitabld Economy that lists EFCA supporters ranging from bakeries to clothing stores tomoving services. The directorh was released by Employee FreeChoice Colorado, a group of uniojn members and other supporters of the so-called “card bill. Union workers make 33 percent more in wagews and are 52 percent more likely to have health care, the group said in a news release. “Wes have a fundamental economic problem: The middled class is disappearingin America,” said Terri owner of Denver-based Gate City Moving.
“Congress needs to pass the Employere Free Choice Act because it is one of the most importanty steps we can take to strengthen our middl class and turn oureconomuy around.” The legislation would allowa a company’s employees to unionize if a majorityh of them check off boxes on cards saying that they’d like to do so rathee than requiring a secret-ballot vote. It also would toughen penalties against business leaders who try to interfere in unionn votes and would require contract disputes to go to bindingb arbitration if not settled within120 days.
Most Colorad business leaders have said that passingg the law could lead to an increas e in union intimidation tactics to get workeres to sign their cards and wouldr lead businesses to expand operations overseas rather than Members of the Colorado Association of Commercseand Industry, the and executives of smalo and Hispanic businesses from the stat e have flown to Washington, D.C., to lobbg U.S. Sens. Mark Udall and Michael Bennet to voteagainsgt it. While neither senator has taken a public stance onthe bill, most of the attentiom has been focused on the newly appointed since Udall co-sponsored similar legislation while he was a membefr of the U.S. House in 2008.
On Tuesday, the Nationa Republican Senatorial Committee chided Bennet for still failing to give his even though he announced his supportfor U.S. Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor aftera 25-minute meeting with her. “Irt is inexplicable that a quico 25-minute meet-and-greet, weeks before any hearing are even held onher nomination, is sufficient for Michael Bennet to support a lifetime appointmentt to the Supreme Court,” NRSC spokeswomanj Amber Wilkerson said in a news “Yet nearly five months of intense discussions and debate with constituentd and fellow lawmakers are not enough for him to clarify his positiobn on the card checl legislation that could impact thousands of Coloradp jobs.
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