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Right to work vs. our sold-out governor
Contributed by: Alan Beshany on 10/3/2008

After hearing about labor and business collaborated to negate our right to vote on several amendments, I was disgusted to hear that once again our governor sold out to the labor unions and agreed to fight Coloradan's right to work. Catch that carefully...the governor is opposed to right-to-work. He has totally sold out to the labor unions who want to raise the price of everything by compelling workers to join unions and pay union dues.

Right to work is not only the Colorado way, it is the American way. There is a strong reason why union membership keeps falling, now perhaps at the lowest level in the 20-21 st centuries. Remember Hoffa and Gotti? And most recently Robert and Michael McKay, Michael "Mickey" Annucci, and this: Tom Baker, who headed Boeing's largest union for 12 years, was sentenced to a year and a day in federal prison. Baker's crime: embezzling $33,531 from the 35,000 members he represented.These types and other union goons are apparently the type of people the governor want to oversee and control Colorado workers. Obviously Ritter wants to sell workers rights to the unions, who have an unsavory past.As a life-long Democrat, I am disgusted by Ritter's actions, and will never support him again. I feel that he has betrayed everything we Democrats stand for...helping the workers, average people, and the middle class. Ritter's actions are nothing more than a low-class sellout to his new buddies, and intend to sacrifice the rights of Colorado workers to be free from union intimidation. We must all band together and fight FOR Amendment 47 and save our right to work.

Fie on you, governor. You are a disgrace.

Alan Beshany

Lakewood, CO




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Submitted By: Bryant Pierpont
posted on 10/3/2008 @ 6:41:14 PM
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Right to work is a misguided euphemism. The truth is it's a right for employers to shaft workers. Unions work when they're needed, fade away when they're not, and come back when needed. That's simply reality.
Submitted By: Stan Dyer
posted on 10/3/2008 @ 10:59:38 AM
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Tell me, what do those former Union leaders have to do with employment in Colorado? The truth is without dues, the Unions cannot exist. This is strictly a Union-busting Amendement and nothing else. People will still have the right to work when the Amendment fails, but they will have the support of their Unions too. All your Police, Fireman, Nurses and many other professionals not only have Unions, they stand behind them 100%. Amendment 47 is an attempt to bust these necessary Unions by appealing to mindless, selfish freeloaders. Amendement 47 favors no one but the rich.
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