SEIU Local 105

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Friends:

Too often we forget that unions brought us the weekend, workers compensation, the minimum wage, the end of child labor and employer paid health insurance. And the right to organize a union is basic to our democratic freedoms.

Now County employees are asking us to stand up for this freedom, right here in Boulder County. Will you?

Tell the County Commissioners
you want to see a model labor law:

Send Them a Fax Postcard

Our Boulder County employees are organizing right now. Last December they asked the County Commissioners to pass a fair and democratic labor law. The County must establish its own union recognition process, since neither federal nor state labor laws cover public employees. Recently, to move things along and help the Commissioners craft a really progressive model piece of legislation, the employees submitted a draft resolution, along with a draft Code of Conduct for management and union organizers.

Click Here to see the Model Resolution

The Commissioners are considering passing a resolution establishing a recognition process – but some of them are resisting key elements of a good process: management neutrality, access to county facilities so employees can meet with union staff, and binding arbitration of contract disputes.

Send the Commissioners a fax postcard and urge them to adopt a union recognition process in which the County stays neutral on the question of a union.

The opinion of a supervisor – even a good one – can be intimidating and employees who will vote on a union should be able to discuss and decide free from management interference. The Boulder County Democratic Party overwhelmingly adopted a resolution calling on the Commissioners to adopt a union recognition process and direct management to be neutral. Even in Oklahoma, the public sector law includes a neutrality provision.

Click here for more information.

As progressives in one of the most progressive areas in the country, we need to lead the way in supporting all employees’ freedom to organize a union. Our County government and elected officials should be solidly behind the freedom to organize and be, if not pro-union, at least neutral on a union.

Local teachers, through the Boulder Valley Education Association have strongly urged adoption of the draft resolution. Now you can too.

Send the Commissioners your message right now.

It’s important they hear from you NOW as they consider what direction to take.

Thanks for your support.