The Strange Case of the Colorado Labor-Business Coalition

by: Dana Goldstein, The American Prospect

Labor and business in Colorado join to defeat initiatives.

    In the Rocky Mountain swing state, business leaders are working alongside unions to defeat a right-to-work ballot initiative. But that doesn't mean Colorado is friendly to organized labor. Inside one of the wackiest political compromises in history.     With markets plummeting, financial firms failing, and both presidential campaigns running television ads vilifying corporate executives, it seemed like a natural time to pass the nation's strictest ever corporate malfeasance laws. »