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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

A crow of workers stands holding a banner that say "Colroado Workers Rights United" with a blue mountain range graphic underneath

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

Group picture of attendees for training class

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...

National News

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.

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23 Aug, 2016

On the 51st Anniversary of the Voting Rights Act, Now Is the Time to Restore It to Its Full Power

Anniversaries can be celebratory or somber. Today we celebrate the 51st anniversary of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, and it is the kind of anniversar...