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Denver Area Labor FederationLabor 2009 City Office Questionnaire
Candidate Name: _________________________________________________________ Campaign Address: _______________________________________________________ Campaign Manager: _______________________________________________________ Phones: (Candidate) _________________________ (Campaign) ____________________ Office / District # you are seeking: ___________________________________________ 
Please contact Sara Kuntzler to pick up a questionnaire & schedule a time to interview.
Please return yourcompleted questionnaire no later than the day prior to your interview
to Sara via fax, e-mail, or regular mail at:140 Sheridan Blvd., Denver, CO 80226. Tel: (303) 477-6111 x 20 Fax: (303) 477-6123 or skuntzler@denverlabor.org.
1.Are you seeking an endorsement from the Denver Area Labor Federation?Yes _________No __________ 
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City workers who provide critical public services lack the rights that most take for granted: the right to form an employee union and negotiate with their employer concerning wages, benefits, and working conditions (currently they cannot collectively bargain). How would you address this issue?
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Privatization of public services can reduce city expenditures, but often results in poorer quality services and lower wages for service employees. Under what circumstanceswould you advocate the privatization of city services?
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4. Public political support is a critical element in workers’ ability to overcome employer opposition and exercise their right to form an employee union. Would you be willing to provide public support for an organizing campaign? Please check all you would bewilling to do and place a * next to those you have already done:
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 ___ Attend rallies. ___ Act as a liaison with law enforcement when necessary. ___ Assist workers with holding hearings on employer abuses. ___ Meet with employers and ask them to agree to majority representation (“card check”)or neutrality and rehire fired workers. ___ Send letters to the employee targets in your district in support of organizing andemployee organization. ___ Publicly support the right of public employees to negotiate wages, benefits, andworking conditions with employers.5.We believe that all people deserve the following basic civil rights. Please check all thatyou support: ___ The right to freely organize an employee union. ___ The right to negotiate wages, benefits, and working conditions. ___ The right to family-supporting wages and benefits. ___ The right to full equality on the job. ___ The right to a safe workplace and decent working conditions. ___ The right to speak and be heard, without punishment. ___ The right to a pension and a healthy retirement. ___ The right to strike when necessary.6.More than at any time in recent history, working people are trying to join together inunions to win better pay, health care and retirement security, safer jobs and time for their families and communities. Yet in workplace after workplace, employers routinely block workers’ freedom to choose a union. Nationally, in 91 percent of efforts by workers toorganize unions, employers force employees to attend anti-union meetings designed to“change” employees’ minds. In 80 percent of efforts, employers use supervisors to pressure working people in one-on-one meetings. In 31 percent of National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) elections, employers illegally fire workers for supporting aunion. Public opinion polls show most Americans believe such employer tactics arewrong.Please check all that you support in regards to labor law reform: _____The right for workers to collectively bargain with their employer for fair wages,safe working conditions, and integrity at the workplace. _____ The option of binding arbitration when employers and employees cannot come toan agreement on a first contract. _____ Allow employees the option of deciding to use majority sign-up to form a union,instead of a National Labor Relations Board election.
 
 ______Allow workers to organize freely without intimidation or coercion by their employer.
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“Labor peace” agreements (also known as neutrality agreements), provide a peacefulmeans of establishing employee union recognition, whereby employees refrain fromeconomic disruption (picketing, boycotting) and in return the employer remains neutralduring an organizing campaign. When public funds (including the use of TIF) becomeinvolved in a project (i.e. a hotel), would you support and facilitate the use of “labor  peace” agreements? Why or why not?
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In 2008, there were initiatives placed on the statewide ballot by out of state specialinterests that would have weakened the voice of small, local businesses and handcuffedworking Coloradans like teachers, firefighters, police officers and nurses. Theseinitiatives would have interfered with the relationship between employers and employees,as well as limiting the ability of public employees to advocate for changes in the work  place. While these initiatives were overwhelmingly turned down by Colorado voters, weare confident that we will see these initiatives again, both at the state and local levels.a.) Will you oppose and do all in your power to stop a law that would interfere with therelationship between employers and employees by deciding how the union is able torepresent its members within a collective bargaining unit (so-called "Right-to-Work")?YESNOPlease explain:b.) Will you oppose and do all in your power to stop a law that eliminates employees’choice to have automatic payroll deductions for union dues?
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Prevailing wage is surveyed wages and benefits paid to construction workers in a specificgeographic area. Prevailing wage establishes a competitive bidding process for unionand non-union contractors based on paying fair wages and benefits, training, safety, andquality. Would you advocate for paying prevailing wages on construction projects thatare paid (in part or all) by the City? Why or why not?
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