Colorado Hispanic business leaders to lobby Bennet, others on union bill - Pacific Business News (Honolulu):

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The delegation includes members of the Hispanic Contractors ofColoradlo (HCC) and the Denver Hispanic Chamber of The group will be in Washington on Tuesday and Wednesday, joiningh small-business leaders from other The Colorado business leaders want to tell Bennet, and other lawmakers “why this bill wouldr really hurt them as they try to emergew from a tough economy,” said HCC spokesman Sean Duffy said the group arranged to meet with Bennet becauser he has not yet declarer how he will vote on the labor bill. “In these very difficult economic times, companieas are struggling to retain the jobsthey have,” Helgaw Grunerud, HCC executive said in a statement.
“We want to send a messagew that we want to help jump start economic recoverubut [the labor bill] woulde make that challenge far, far greater.” The Employee Free Choice Act, also knowjn as the “card check” bill, would allow workerx to organize a uniojn without a secret election, as now Instead, a local couldf be launched at a workplace if at least half its workers sign an authorizationb card. Unions say the bill is neededs to protect worker rights inthe recession. But in a HCC said that enactment of thelaw “wouls unfairly tip the delicate business-labor climate in Coloradl sharply away from employers, and would result in furthefr economic damage and job loss.
” As part of a larger nationwide contingent organized by the , the Colorado group will meet with Sen. John Thune, R-S.D., and othef legislators “to be determined,” Duffy said. The business leaders also want to discusdsother issues, including health care reform and the allocationm of federal stimulus