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Content Index: Employee Free Choice Act
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Labor unions will fight to kill the secret ballot at all costs.
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Ballot initiative would neuter 'card check' in Colorado
A Face the State Staff Report
July 14, 2009
Unions have challenged the language of a ballot initiative that would amend the Colorado Constitution to guarantee employees' right to a secret ballot in unionization elections. Meanwhile, legislation is pending before Congress that would remove that requirement from federal law.
1/16: Can Bennet stand up to the unions?
Will Colorado’s newest U.S. Senator have the resolve to stand up to a very bad idea?
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Segment 2 - 'Card check' legislation and the U.S. Senate race
Barbara Comstock of the Workforce Fairness Institute discusses the curiously named Employee Free Choice Act, which would do away with secret-ballot elections in workplaces considering "union shop" status.
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FTS Weekend Edition, 10/18
On this week's Face The State Weekend Edition: A look at Gov. Ritter's impact on Colorado politics, liberal non-profits revealed, and a closer look at political advertising. Plus, FTS writer Rachel Boxer on labor unions' legislative priorities.
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Election battle could set stage for more aggressive labor lobby in 2009
A Face the State Staff Report
October 15, 2008Colorado’s Labor Peace Act has created a kind of harmony between organized labor and business owners for the past 65 years, but recent political maneuvers by business leaders and union activists threaten to dismantle the old law.