Right-to-work amendment put on ballot (Colorado)

[Omaha Steve]

http://www.bizjournals.com/denver/stories/2008/04/28/daily9.html

Monday, April 28, 2008 - 2:55 PM MDT

Denver Business Journal - by Bob Mook Denver Business Journal

A ballot initiative that would ask voters to turn Colorado into a right-to-work state received a "statement of sufficiency" from the Colorado Secretary of State's Office on Monday.

According to a release from A Better Colorado, the right-to-work campaign, supporters gathered an estimated 94,546 valid signatures -- 124 percent of the 76,047 required under state law. Proponents gave the Secretary of State more than 133,000 signatures earlier this month.

The right-to-work amendment will appear on the ballot as Amendment 47. Its formal title is "Prohibition on Certain Conditions of Employment."

Organized labor strongly opposes the right-to-work initiative, which bars unions from collecting mandatory dues in collective bargaining workplaces.

In early April, a Denver attorney who represents labor unions filed a complaint with Colorado Secretary of State Mike Coffman after determining that at least two petition collectors told signers they didn't need to be registered voters and they could sign the petition more than once.

A spokeswoman for the Colorado Secretary of State's office said opponents of the measure may challenge the signatures in court. If found valid and enough signatures could be rejected, then the judge could remove the measure from the ballot.

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