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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...

Colorado News & Actions

Councilwomen Parady addressing the crowd outside Weathervane

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...

Colorado News & Actions

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...

Colorado News & Actions

Five Casa Bonita Workers put up solidarity fists

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...

Colorado News & Actions

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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!...

Colorado News & Actions

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...

Colorado News & Actions

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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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Take Action | 29 Apr, 2018

Colorado AFL-CIO Announces First Round of 2018 Candidate Endorsements

Delegates from across Colorado gathered on April 28-29, 2018 for the Colorado AFL-CIO’s 33rd biennial Committee on Political Education (COPE) Conventi...

Take Action | 26 Apr, 2018

Labor Voices: We Need Workplace Protections

When we kiss our loved ones’ goodbye to head to work, we don’t expect tragedy. Saturday is Workers Memorial Day, a time for all of us to remember thos...

Take Action | 26 Apr, 2018

Union Win Marks Step Forward for Student Labor Movement

Harvard research and teaching assistants' vote to unionize last week was unique in its scale and drew on a decades-long push to form graduate student...

Take Action | 17 Apr, 2018

Senate Bill to Curtail Labor Rights on Tribal Land Falls Short

Organized labor managed an increasingly rare feat on Monday — a political victory — when its allies turned back a Senate measure aimed at rolling back...

Take Action | 11 Apr, 2018

How Does Your State Stack Up on Pay Equity for Women?

The notion of bringing home 80 cents for every dollar pocketed by a man on a national basis is unsettling enough. But it's even more startling when th...

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11 Apr, 2018

Want To Carry On Martin Luther King Jr.’s Work? Join A Union

Fifty years ago this week, Martin Luther King Jr. went to Memphis, Tennessee, to march with the city’s striking black sanitation workers. Wages were b...