We’ve been talking about striking public employees for a long time, and it looks like Colorado Democrats are about to give something away that they’ll never get back. Time to pay the union piper if you will. We’ve been telling you about this since last August then again in mid September and yet again at the end of November. This is going to be a cause of major problems in Colorado – expect a Rocky Mountain high of union backed shenanigans.

DENVER – A House committee Thursday rejected a Colorado Springs legislator’s tough prohibition against strikes by public employees.Instead, the House Business Affairs and Labor Committee voted 6-5 in favor of a measure by Rep. Jim Riesberg, D-Greeley, that bans strikes by state employees only.

Rep. Bob Gardner, R-Colorado Springs, had proposed banning strikes by all public employees in the state, including teachers and city workers. It carried fines of $500 per day for striking workers and $10,000 a day for labor organizations and would have decertified unions and barred employees from working for any public body for one year.

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