Labor, business reach pact

Fri, Oct 3 2008

Colorado labor and business leaders announced a joint effort aimed at defeating three contentious anti-union measures on November’s ballot, an unprecedented agreement that marked the culmination of weeks of intense negotiations among unlikely allies.

In return for the business community’s pledge to campaign against a “right-to-work” measure and two other amendments targeting unions, the organized labor community agreed to withdraw four ballot initiatives that businesses had feared would harm the state’s economy.

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