Labor groups endorse Romanoff

[ccharles000]

U.S. Senator Michael Bennet stood up for labor this week, voting for the failed nomination to the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) of Craig Becker, a labor lawyer with close ties to unions. Labor stood up for his opponent a day later, with the announcement today by two of the state’s largest unions that they would endorse Andrew Romanoff, who is challenging Bennet in a Democratic primary.

The Colorado chapters of both the Teamsters and the United Food and Commercial Workers endorsed Romanoff Wednesday, citing their long-standing relationship with the former state House Speaker. “Andrew Romanoff was always straight with us,” Steve Vairma, president of the Colorado Council of Teamsters, said in announcing the endorsement.

Becker’s NLRB nomination was controversial with business groups, and Bennet’s support is expected to be used by Republicans as a potential point of attack. It apparently didn’t buy much goodwill with labor, however. Bennet has yet to take a position on the Employee Free Choice Act, the unions’ biggest legislative priority under the Obama administration, and that has angered some labor advocates.

http://blogs.denverpost.com/thespot/2010/02/10/labor-groups-endorse-romanoff/

[paulk]

1. since Bennet was a Ritter appointment

it's payback time for Ritter's betrayal of the unions.

This is good news, actually.