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Colorado News & Actions | 31 Mar, 2025

Colorado AFL-CIO Statements on Trump's Executive Order Stripping Federal Workers' Collective Bargaining Rights

Trump’s executive order stripping the collective bargaining rights of 700,000 federal workers is the most blatant attack against workers’ rights in mo...

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11 Mar, 2025

Rallies against HB 1208

It’s been a busy week of rallies hearing from tipped workers, restaurant and bar owners, community and labor groups, local city council members about...

Colorado News & Actions

25 Feb, 2025

People Who Work for a Living Are Fed Up with Unelected Billionaire Elon Musk and DOGE

ICYMI: People Who Work for a Living Are Fed Up with Unelected Billionaire Elon Musk and DOGE  ...

Colorado News & Actions

20 Feb, 2025

King Soopers and grocery workers strike ends for 100 days as bargaining resumes

Over 10,000 King Soopers employees in Colorado ended a two-week strike on February 18, 2025, after reaching a temporary agreement to resume negotiatio...

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11 Feb, 2025

Five Secretaries of Labor Champion Worker Protection Act Urge Governor, legislators to expand worker freedom to negotiate for better pay and safety

DENVER — Today, five former U.S...

Colorado News & Actions | 27 Nov, 2024

National Labor Relations Board Bans Captive Audience Meetings Nationwide

The National Labor Relations Board has banned captive audience meetings nationwide. This is a huge win for labor! These meetings are a common uni...

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27 Nov, 2024

Casa Bonita Workers Unanimously Vote to Unionze

Casa Bonita workers — both onstage and backstage — voted unanimously on Friday to unionize. Employees aim to make the workplace safer and address conc...

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20 Nov, 2024

Colorado Workers Rights United Launched for the Worker Protection Act

A new coalition —Colorado Workers Rights United— was launched on November 19th!...

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06 Nov, 2024

Boulder Minimum Wage Raised

With more than 45 out of ~50 testimonies in favor of raising the wage, Boulder City Council voted on Oct 10th to raise the minimum wage for the city o...

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29 Aug, 2024

Another successful Organizing Institute training

On August 16th, more than twenty dedicated and enthusiastic union organizers, all from Colorado, came together in Colorado Springs (Springs as Colorad...

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26 Apr, 2023

25 Things You Need to Know from the 2023 Death on the Job Report

This 2023 edition of Death on the Job: The Toll of Neglect marks the 32nd year the AFL-CIO has produced a report on the state of safety and healt...

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24 Apr, 2023

SIGN: Confirm Julie Su for Labor Secretary

Julie Su’s record speaks for itself. As a young attorney representing trafficked Thai garment workers outside of Los Angeles, she won $4 million in st...

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02 Apr, 2023

Starbucks Founder Howard Shultz’s Congressional Testimony: Lies Detected

On Tuesday, Starbucks founder and former CEO Howard Shultz testified in front of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee.&nb...

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23 Mar, 2023

Virtual Event: Lifting Up Women on the Shop Floor

Picture a manufacturing worker. Are you imagining a woman wielding a torch or assembling an SUV? The manufacturing sector provides good jobs with...

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15 Mar, 2023

Call: Paycheck Fairness Act

The referenced media source is missing and needs to be re-embedded. The Paycheck Fairness Act increases penalties when employers violate equal pay...

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10 Mar, 2023

International Women’s Day

Women are now nearly 50% of the workforce—yet inequality in the workplace continues. Unequal pay, harassment and discrimination are just some of the a...