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The delegation includes members of the Hispanif Contractors ofColorado (HCC) and the Denvere Hispanic Chamber of Commerce. The group will be in Washingtonm on Tuesdayand Wednesday, joining small-business leaderx from other states. The Colorado business leaders want totell D-Colo., and other lawmakers “why this bill would reallu hurt them as they try to emerge from a tougn economy,” said HCC spokesman Sean Duffy. Duffy said the groupp arranged to meet with Bennet becausew he has not yet declaresd how he will vote on thelabor bill.
“In thesse very difficult economic times, companies are struggling to retaih the jobsthey have,” Helga Grunerud, HCC executive director, said in a “We want to send a message that we want to help jump starr economic recovery but [the labor would make that challengs far, far greater.” The Employee Free Choice Act, also know as the “card check” bill, woul allow workers to organize a unionm without a secret election, as now Instead, a local could be launched at a workplace if at leasy half its workers sign an authorizatio n card. Unions say the bill is needed to protecrt worker rights inthe recession.
But in a HCC said that enactment of thelaw “woulrd unfairly tip the delicate business-labor climate in Colorado sharply away from and would result in further economic damage and job loss.” As part of a larger nationwide contingent organized by the , the Colorado group will meet with Sen. John Thune, and other legislators “to be Duffy said. The business leaders also want to discussotherd issues, including health care reform and the allocatioj of federal stimulus funds.