The Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA), which would have made it easier to organize workers who want to be union members, is fast becoming a dim memory, with little chance of even being considered this year.
            If it isn’t passed this year, odds are that EFCA will never become law, and major labor law [...]

           Governor Bill Ritter’s decision not to run for re-election in 2010 is a wonderful, belated Christmas gift to Colorado Democrats in general and organized labor in particular.
            With Ritter at the head of their ticket, the Democrats would have gone down to an ignominious defeat in Colorado, possibly losing their majorities in both the [...]

 
            Governor Bill Ritter received an early Christmas gift in November when Josh Penry bowed out of the Republican gubernatorial primary campaign in favor of Scott McInnis, a fraying but familiar politician who aspires to be a heavyweight, but has never been more than a bantamweight.
            In choosing to stick with the familiar, Colorado Republicans [...]

                Colorado unions will face a serious challenge in the New Year as they attempt to endorse candidates for state and national offices.
                The conundrum begins at the two top spots on the ticket—governor and U.S. senate—and trickles down to candidates for other statewide offices and the state legislature.  Gov. Ritter’s record on labor issues [...]

Mike Rosen, radio station KOA’s talk show blabbermouth, is at it again, characterizing union members as “thugs” in a recent column on the ongoing health care debate.

In his Denver Post column, Rosen attempted to compare various elements of the left to the rightwing nuts, many of whom have been photographed carrying guns while demonstrating at locations where President Obama has been speaking.

The question today, sports fans, is, “What would Bill Ritter have to do to regain the trust and support of organized labor in Colorado?”

Unless he can convince many Colorado labor leaders otherwise, Governor Bill Ritter will lose support of many powerful unions that were instrumental in his 2008 victory.

And the possibility that Ritter can convince them otherwise is very slim, indeed.

Here in Colorado, veteran labor observers can’t remember when the Denver Post ever supported a worker’s issue, either national or in the state.