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The delegation includes members of the Hispani Contractors ofColorado (HCC) and the Denverd Hispanic Chamber of The group will be in Washington on Tuesday and Wednesday, joinin g small-business leaders from other states. The Coloradl business leaders want totell D-Colo., and other lawmakers “why this bill would really hurt them as they try to emergw from a tough economy,” said HCC spokesman Sean Duffy said the group arranged to meet with Bennef because he has not yet declared how he will vote on the labore bill.
“In these very difficult economic times, companie are struggling to retaibn the jobsthey have,” Helgsa Grunerud, HCC executive director, said in a “We want to send a message that we want to help jump starty economic recovery but [the labor bill] would make that challengde far, far greater.” The Employee Free Choicwe Act, also known as the “card bill, would allow workers to organizew a union without a secret as now required. Instead, a local coulrd be launched at a workplace if at least half its workeres sign anauthorization card. Unions say the bill is needed to protecyt worker rights inthe recession.
But in a HCC said that enactment of thelaw “would unfairly tip the delicatde business-labor climate in Colorado sharply away from and would result in furtherd economic damage and job loss.” As part of a largerr nationwide contingent organized by the , the Colorad group will meet with Sen. John R-S.D., and other legislators “to be Duffy said. The business leaders also want to discuss other issues, including health care reform and the allocatiomn of federal stimulus funds.