FORT COLLINS - The City Clerk is reporting that Fort Collins voters yesterday struck down a collective bargaining proposal by a margin of nearly three-to-one. The results from Monday's special election mark the third time in the last five years that unions have failed in their electoral efforts to unionize public workers here.
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"Hopefully the union bosses will learn that it's three strikes and you're out in Fort Collins," said Andrew Boucher, a Fort Collins political consultant and opponent of the measure. "The citizens have spoken, and once again they've said no to big labor taking control of their taxpayer dollars. Governor Ritter should take note: the people of Colorado do not support public employee unions." In 2007, Ritter, a Democrat, signed an executive order allowing collective bargaining for state employees.
