Lawmakers and labor groups gathered outside the Governor's Mansion on Tuesday, urging Gov. Jared Polis to sign a bill eliminating the second election from Colorado's Labor Peace Act and require non-union members of a company to pay fees.

Senate Bill 005 , sponsored by Senate Majority Leader Robert Rodriguez, D-Denver, Sen. Jessie Danielson, D-Wheat Ridge, and Reps. Javier Mabrey, D-Denver, and Jennifer Bacon, D-Denver, seeks to repeal an 80-year-old requirement to hold an election to establish a "union security" agreement at a an-already unionized workplace. Under that law, once agreed to by the company and the labor group, non-union workers would be required to pay union representation fees.

Federal law governs union formation. For that election, a labor group must receive a simple maj

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