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Amendment 47 is a union buster, plain and simple. As we watch our skilled-labor jobs being shipped overseas, the few protections we have left are largely due to collective-bargaining agreements. For many unions, work protection clauses in their bargaining unit agreements are the only way they can prevent their members from being laid off and replaced by non-union workers with lower pay. And allowing members to not pay dues is just another way of skirting work protection rules and would probably lead to the collapse of our unions.
Many of us have experienced wages and benefits that are flat or in decline, but that can hardly be blamed on union membership. More realistically, it is due to rising inflation and an economy on the
brink, caused partly by an administration that cares more about big business than about the welfare of the average American citizen.
As far as anyone being forced to join a union, that’s usually a decision one needs to make before accepting a job position. If you don’t like the terms of employment, you are free to look elsewhere.
The union dues I’ve paid over the years have been money well spent.
What we need are more opportunities for good paying jobs, not just jobs that barely pay enough to get by. It’s no wonder that Amendment 47 has been dubbed “the right to work – for less.” Vote No on
Amendment 47 and help preserve our ability to create good paying middle-class jobs.
RICH CRON
Clifton
3 Responses to “Preserve middle-class jobs, vote ‘No’ on Amendment 47”
Posted October 11th, 2008 at 6:03 pm Login to Send PM Report this comment
Interesting.
Is union labor looking at the possibility of local businesses hiring people just as qualified and less unionized to the point that work can be done in less time with higher quality and better employee moral?
Posted October 13th, 2008 at 11:08 am Login to Send PM Report this comment
Right to work actually means lousy wages and no benefits. Workers in right to work states are treated like dirt. Arizona is well known for it’s anti-labour climate and that why it’s known as the “Mississippi of the West”; Mississippi is another right to work state. Our current labour laws are fine and putting Colorado in the same league as Mississippi and Arizona would be a huge mistake. The principal backer of this crappy amendment is a Coors family trust funder. I would ask that GJ workers not be brain washed or intimidated and vote against 47.
Posted October 13th, 2008 at 8:47 pm Login to Send PM Report this comment
I see no clause in the amendment that would force employers to pay lees for non union members, nor offer lesser benefit packages to people that do not waste money on union dues that extend beyond the actual costs of collective bargaining agreements.
It merely give people the same rights to employment as union members.
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