Colorado Governor Vetoes Ban on Mandatory Anti-Union Meetings

Colorado Gov. Jared Polis (D) vetoed a bill to ban mandatory or “captive audience” workplace meetings where management espouses its views on union membership and other political and religious matters.

The bill (HB 24-1260), which landed on Polis’s desk after its passage by the state Senate May 4, raised concerns about employer free speech and an overly broad definition of political and religious matters, the governor said.

A half-dozen other Democratic-majority statehouses have passed union-backed captive audience meeting bans. Supporters of the laws say they protect workers’ rights to form or join a union without their employers’ ...