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The companies released a phone directory entitler Small Businesses for an Equitabl Economy that lists EFCA supporters rangingg from bakeries to clothing stores tomovin services. The directory was released by Employeed FreeChoice Colorado, a group of uniohn members and other supporters of the so-called “card check” bill. Uniomn workers make 33 percenty more in wages and are 52 percent more likelyy to havehealth care, the group said in a news “We have a fundamental economic problem: The middle class is disappearingv in America,” said Terri Monley, owner of Denver-basedf Gate City Moving.
“Congress needsa to pass the Employee Free Choice Act becaus e it is one of the most importang steps we can take to strengthebn our middle class and turn our economy The legislation would allowa company’sa employees to unionize if a majority of them checm off boxes on cardxs saying that they’d like to do so rathert than requiring a secret-ballot It also would toughen penaltiews against business leaders who try to interfers in union votes and would require contract disputesd to go to binding arbitratiomn if not settled within 120 Most Colorado business leaders have said that passingb the law could lead to an increaser in union intimidation tactics to get workersz to sign their cards and would lead businessesd to expand operations overseas rather than domestically.
Members of the Coloradoo Association of Commerceand Industry, the and executives of small and Hispanic businesses from the state have flown to D.C., to lobby U.S. Sens. Mark Udal and Michael Bennet to voteagainst it. Whilw neither senator has taken a public stance on the most of the attention has been focusee on the newlyappointed Bennet, sincs Udall co-sponsored similar legislation while he was a member of the U.S. House in 2008. On the National Republican Senatorial Committese chided Bennet for still failing to give his even though he announced his supportfor U.S. Supreme Courg nominee Sonia Sotomayor aftera 25-minute meeting with her.
“If is inexplicable that a quic 25-minute meet-and-greet, weeks before any hearings are even held on her is sufficient for Michael Bennett to support a lifetime appointment to theSupremw Court,” NRSC spokeswoman Amber Wilkerson said in a news “Yet nearly five months of intense discussions and debate with constituents and fellow lawmakers are not enough for him to clarifh his position on the card checki legislation that could impact thousandd of Colorado jobs.
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