Colorado's right to work in Danger
The Rocky opinion page once again tries to spin the Colorado stance of a workers right to work versus union shops as bad for workers. Giving credence to the union ploy of closed shops are better for workers over all.
Unions are findin very favorable support from Govenor Bill Ritter and Sentor Ken Salazar. Both of which support unions, closed shops and sanctuary for illegal aliens.
How do illegals enter into this? Simple. The largest growing group of union memebers is that of ILLEGALS. Getting yet another foothold in this country.
Unions are no longer there to protect workers or their rights. What they have turned into is a buisness that is interested in making money, and being a political power house of control for a socialist agenda.
The unions, socialist, and progressive groups behind the anti-business proposals are claiming that the right-to-work measure is forceing their hand. Manny Gonzales of United Food and Commercial Workers Local 7 - which filed five ballot measures in late March - told the Rocky the union initiatives would simply "protect" workers who would otherwise "suffer under the right-to-work effort." What, suffer, how so. He gives no explinationother thenthey would suffer.
The amendment would outlaw all-union shops; employees at a unionized workplace could not be compelled to pay dues. But Colorado's Labor Peace Act has made what amounts to closed shops a rarity anyway among private employers. The law - unique to Colorado - requires a union to get approval twice before it establishes an all-union workplace. And to win that second election, the union must get the endorsement of at least half of all workers (not just union members) or 75 percent of votes cast, whichever is higher.
Ah ha, prevent the mandatory collection of union dues. Lack of forced collections to the coffers of the union. Yet what Many does not get into is that unions are wanting to have the law changed and force small buisness to accept unions.
What about public employees? Teachers in Colorado public schools that form a bargaining unit cannot compel membership. Yet if a teacher is non union the likely hood of getting tenure is nothing more then a dream. Ritter's executive order on "employee partnerships" forbids closed shops at state departments. But what it does is open the door real wide allowing unions a huge foothold in the shop and giving them a major say in how things will run.
To give Ritter any credit in preventing the loss of right to work is nonsense. What Ritter is doing is moving this state closer to a closed shop state leaving the little guy. A nonunion memebr out in the cold.
This is the first step in eliminateing right to work laws. Just look at the under the table, back room deals to bring the DNC to town by both Ritter and Hickenlooper. Leaving out the little man in favor of unions.
For years one of the key arguments of unions is that it makes it harder for buisness to fire employees. Therefore protecting the worker. This is the biggest spin on workers rights to ever come forth. What a union does is protect the nonproductive worker from being fired. By tieing the hands of the employers and giving a nonqualified employee a continuous paycheck while not doing anything to earn this money. Prime example is in teachers unions, and the tenure procedure. One can also look at any governement unions the same way. Lots of dead weight that cannot be removed, but has to be paid.
Who will pay the ultimate price on this. Why of coarse it is the consumer. As the consumer picks up the tab on every thing. Higher prices for less service and product.
Ritter, Hickenlooper, and Salazar are not for the average joe as they claim. Like most liberals. They are lineing their pockets and screwing the public over.
Unions are findin very favorable support from Govenor Bill Ritter and Sentor Ken Salazar. Both of which support unions, closed shops and sanctuary for illegal aliens.
How do illegals enter into this? Simple. The largest growing group of union memebers is that of ILLEGALS. Getting yet another foothold in this country.
Unions are no longer there to protect workers or their rights. What they have turned into is a buisness that is interested in making money, and being a political power house of control for a socialist agenda.
The unions, socialist, and progressive groups behind the anti-business proposals are claiming that the right-to-work measure is forceing their hand. Manny Gonzales of United Food and Commercial Workers Local 7 - which filed five ballot measures in late March - told the Rocky the union initiatives would simply "protect" workers who would otherwise "suffer under the right-to-work effort." What, suffer, how so. He gives no explinationother thenthey would suffer.
The amendment would outlaw all-union shops; employees at a unionized workplace could not be compelled to pay dues. But Colorado's Labor Peace Act has made what amounts to closed shops a rarity anyway among private employers. The law - unique to Colorado - requires a union to get approval twice before it establishes an all-union workplace. And to win that second election, the union must get the endorsement of at least half of all workers (not just union members) or 75 percent of votes cast, whichever is higher.
Ah ha, prevent the mandatory collection of union dues. Lack of forced collections to the coffers of the union. Yet what Many does not get into is that unions are wanting to have the law changed and force small buisness to accept unions.
What about public employees? Teachers in Colorado public schools that form a bargaining unit cannot compel membership. Yet if a teacher is non union the likely hood of getting tenure is nothing more then a dream. Ritter's executive order on "employee partnerships" forbids closed shops at state departments. But what it does is open the door real wide allowing unions a huge foothold in the shop and giving them a major say in how things will run.
To give Ritter any credit in preventing the loss of right to work is nonsense. What Ritter is doing is moving this state closer to a closed shop state leaving the little guy. A nonunion memebr out in the cold.
This is the first step in eliminateing right to work laws. Just look at the under the table, back room deals to bring the DNC to town by both Ritter and Hickenlooper. Leaving out the little man in favor of unions.
For years one of the key arguments of unions is that it makes it harder for buisness to fire employees. Therefore protecting the worker. This is the biggest spin on workers rights to ever come forth. What a union does is protect the nonproductive worker from being fired. By tieing the hands of the employers and giving a nonqualified employee a continuous paycheck while not doing anything to earn this money. Prime example is in teachers unions, and the tenure procedure. One can also look at any governement unions the same way. Lots of dead weight that cannot be removed, but has to be paid.
Who will pay the ultimate price on this. Why of coarse it is the consumer. As the consumer picks up the tab on every thing. Higher prices for less service and product.
Ritter, Hickenlooper, and Salazar are not for the average joe as they claim. Like most liberals. They are lineing their pockets and screwing the public over.
