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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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Photo credit: desrowVISUALS/ChrisGoodwin Organizer Len Harris stands with sign reading Workers Deserve Fair Wages

18 Jul, 2024

Join the Fight for Living Wage in Boulder County

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Colorado News & Actions | 17 Jun, 2024

Denver City Municipal Collective Bargaining

Even though every other major peer city to Denver ((Albuquerque, Boston, Kansas City, Milwaukee, Minneapolis, Seattle and more) already has collective...

Colorado News & Actions | 06 May, 2024

Grace Carroll Rocky Mountain Labor School in Golden, Colorado

The Grace Carroll Rocky Mountain Labor School (GCRMLS) will hold its 67th annual session July 7-13 in Golden, Colorado...

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Dennis Dougherty CO AFL-CIO Executive Director

27 Apr, 2024

Public Speaking Gives You The Stomachache? We got the remedy, join Labor Slam!

Labor Slam: Public Speaking Course Round #5REGISTER HERE...

Colorado News & Actions

27 Apr, 2024

2024 Colorado AFL-CIO Legislative Priorities

The Colorado AFL-CIO’s 2024 legislative priorities make it easier for workers to form a union if they choose, to provide customers and their drivers m...

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Take Action | 14 Nov, 2016

The election is over. What lies ahead for labor?

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Take Action | 18 Oct, 2016

Colorado AFL-CIO calls on All Colorado Republicans to Withdraw Support of Donald Trump

Denver – As the 2016 ballots go out, theColorado AFL-CIO, which represents more than 170 affiliate unions whose membership totals more than 130,000 wo...

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15 Sep, 2016

Know Your Voting Rights

Important elections are coming this fall. In addition to electing the next president of the United States, we will be voting for members of Congress,...

Take Action | 14 Sep, 2016

Colorado AFL-CIO Releases Final List of 2016 Election Endorsements

COLORADO AFL-CIO RELEASES FINAL LIST OF 2016 STATE LEGISLATIVE ENDORSEMENTSCOMMITTEE ON POLITICAL EDUCATION VOTES TO OPPOSE AMENDMENT 71...

Take Action | 02 Sep, 2016

What It Means To Be an American

One night at his UPS job, Tefere Gebre's co-worker handed him some union material. “He told me that I’d get health care and vacation and other be...

Take Action | 24 Aug, 2016

Today’s Photo ID Laws Are Yesterday’s Beans in a Jar

Growing up in rural Kentucky, Augusta Thomas witnessed the extreme measures elected officials would take to prevent African-American men from voting.