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Today marks the final deadline to remove initiatives from Colorado's November ballot, and businesses are scrambling to get unions and labor supporters to abandon four pro-labor measures related to factors such as health insurance and executive liability. It is speculated that labor groups added the initiatives in response to a proposed right-to-work amendment (Amendment 47), and two other initiatives seen as detrimental to labor. Amendment 47 would allow employees to work under a collective bargaining agreement without paying union dues (making the fees as a condition of employment illegal). Businesses are attempting to bargain directly with unions, offering money to fight the anti-labor initiatives in return for removal of the four pro-labor initiatives. Many see the labor initiatives as harmful to the state economy.