Government employees in more than half of Colorado counties on Friday won the right unionize and to collectively bargain over pay, benefits and working conditions.
The lead sponsor of the bill, Pueblo Democrat Daneya Esgar, has called the policy “monumental.”
The plan was to allow hundreds of thousands of these workers to form unions without needing permission from elected government leaders or from voters. They don’t have that right at present. The plan also involved conferring upon these workers the power to negotiate union contracts. In that sense, county leaders can opt-out of agreeing to any new union contracts, even if they can’t stop workers from unionizing to begin with. The pro-labor advocates who backed SB22-230 are hoping that won’t happen so simply — that if and when unions form in anti-union counties, commissioners will be moved by public pressure to honestly negotiate with workers and to consider those workers’ asks.
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