


A coalition of 38 mayors in the Denver (CO) metro area voted Wednesday to urge business and union groups to back off their competing ballot initiatives. If the Metro Mayors Caucus doesn't get a response by July 4, then it most likely will take positions against both sides and campaign against them, said Centennial Mayor Randy Pye, chairman of the caucus.
"No to the labor measures and no to right-to-work," Denver Mayor John Hickenlooper said Wednesday while addressing a Metro Denver Economic Development Corp. luncheon.
A business-backed right-to-work measure has been certified for the ballot and would ask voters to amend the state constitution to say that union membership and dues or fees may not be mandated as a precondition of employment.
Unions are pushing several competing measures, including initiatives that would hold executives criminally liable for corporate fraud and require businesses to provide reasons for firing workers.
"It is a huge waste of resources," Hickenlooper said.
About two dozen mayors in the caucus who attended the group's bimonthly meeting Wednesday voted to draft a resolution, which has to be approved by all of the mayors in the alliance before it is adopted. Pye said that is expected by next week.
(denverpost.com)