A Split on the Right

The Examiner - Beer heir Jonathon Coors and Aurora City Councilman Ryan Frazier are the main backers of the Colorado Right to Work Committee's petition drivers that put Question 47 on the November ballot. If approved, Question 47 would make Colorado the 23rd state to adopt a right to work law guaranteeing an employee the right to retain his job without having to join a union. Right to work laws were first authorized by section 14(b) of the Taft-Hartley Act of 1947. But the Colorado drive does not have the support of the National Right to Work Committee in the nation's capitol where a spokesman predicts the effort is "doomed to failure." This is because, according to Doug Stafford, the committee's vice-president, national right to work officials fear the consequences if voters reject the proposal in November. "Ballot petitions are difficult to win. There is a built in advantage to being the status quo. Then there is the unlimited forced-dues cash that Right to Work will be up against, which Big Labor will use to blanket the state with lies about Right to Work," Stafford said. Most of the 22 states that now have right to work laws got them as a result of legislative action rather than ballot initiatives and voter referendums, Stafford said. Losing in November "will doom the right to work movement in Colorado for a generation," he said. The split in the ranks of those who would normally be politically aligned in opposing labor unions in Colorado is especially unfortunate, given the circumstances. The Right to Work initiative faces difficult prospects for winning in November just from the nationwide money and manpower resources unions are mobilizing against it. Add the opposition of Colorado's largest business organization, the Denver Metro Chamber of Commerce and the outlook is even tougher.

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