Amendment 54, the “clean government” initiative targeting union supporters and their family members, looks likely to pass, sparking was could be another costly legal battle.
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.
Despite claims by supporters of the “right-to-work” state ballot measure Amendment 47, it is against federal law for any worker in the United States to be forced to join a labor union. Now the mainstream media is starting to catch on to this fact when penning articles about the issue, and surprisingly, the trend is being led by the traditionally conservative Rocky Mountain News.
Aurora city councilman Ryan Frazier, who many consider a rising Republican star, will walk into court tomorrow to defend himself against a lawsuit he says was inspired by his support of a measure many consider anti-union.
This column comes with an upfront disclaimer.
I recently lost my job because I had no union protection.
Had I been in the bargaining unit, the boss who “involuntarily separated” me from my post could not have laid…
Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean met with AFL-CIO President John Sweeney two weeks ago to start a dialog about labor issues concerning the convention, however Gov. Bill Ritter had a previous engagement out of state and was unable…
Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean hasn’t been in Colorado on political business since Denver was officially in the running for the Democratic National Convention site. Starting this Thursday, chances are that Colorado–and labor organizers–will see a lot of the…
The Colorado Court of Appeals ruled today that tenured professors at Metropolitian State College in Denver may have priority over non-tenured professors in the event that the college lays off professors in the future.
On the first of September this year, for profit HCA, a health care provider with a 35% market share and the highest profit margin of any provider network in Colorado, and United Healthcare, one of the largest health insurers in…
Colorado was once a national labor movement hotspot, known particularly for its mine worker’s unions. Today, Colorado has one of the weaker private sector union movements in the country. There were about 5,900 fewer labor union members in Colorado in…
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