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Moderate Democratic U.S. Rep. Betsy Markey is being targeted by a pro-health reform campaign that will run in the districts of 17 members of Congress for the rest of the week in advance of a vote in Washington. The campaign is the work of Colorado Health Care for America Now (HCAN) and Service Employees International [...]

A pro-business group intent on torpedoing the Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA) is taking the battle to the airwaves in Colorado and three other states with a million-dollar ad campaign, TPM Election Central reports. The 30-second TV ad, which began airing Tuesday, links embattled Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich to a union backing the legislation and ends with a plea to “call Sen. (Ken) Salazar. Tell him to say no to the Union Boss Bailout.”

A national labor organization will send a mailer supporting Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Mark Udall to tens of thousands of registered voters and unions members this week.

In less than a year, Colorado’s 32,000 state employees have been unionized in what was considered to be the largest labor organizing campaign in the nation.

A local labor union is targeting a janitorial contractor at Denver International Airport over allegations that the company is refusing to negotiate health care benefits for workers.

In the concrete wilderness of brand-name storefronts and meticulous landscaping, members and supporters of the local Service Employees International Union (SEIU) gave up their Saturday afternoon to picket the Millard Group, a company which provides janitorial services for the Park Meadows Shopping Center south of Denver.

The protest, which took place Aug. 25, was held in [...]

The fight is on to unionize approximately 20 janitors working at that Park Meadows Shopping Center, the bustling mall located south of metro Denver.

According to organizers with the Service Employees International Union (SEIU), the labor group has been attempting to unionize the employees since May, and now the effort has turned to legal action amid [...]

UPDATE: Gov. Ritter will sign the healthcare worker whistle blower bill tomorrow, and issue and executive order  calling for a taskforce to address hospital staffing levels.

It’s not just businesses on the lobbyist bandwagon.

While corporations pay thousands of dollars for representation at the capitol, labor groups are hip to hiring their own lobbyists to influence [...]

Last week Colorado Confidential reported on local labor elections and the unions that won them.

According to the Colorado Department of Labor and Employment, there have been 17 elections since 2003, and 12 of those were won by unions.

But not every victory comes down to a government supervised election.

It’s not often that labor unions and businesses find issues they agree on, but apparently there is at least one.

It was announced today that the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) will join forces with companies including Wal-Mart and AT&T to address the lack of health care coverage in the United States.

The coalition will be [...]