Tag: AFL-CIO

The Douglas County Board of Education election, it seems, still isn’t over. Early this week, Douglas County informed the Douglas County School District that it would not be able to certify the election in time to swear in the new slate of charter school-friendly, Republican-backed, “reform” candidates for the next board meeting.

What is the union agenda in the Douglas County School race? The answer depends a great deal on whether you believe the hype or...

In what some might see as a revealing small chapter of contemporary U.S. politics, an ugly school board election in Douglas County has seen the local Republican Party use hard-line ideological arguments to promote preferred "freedom-loving" Republican candidates over teachers' union-endorsed "liberal" Republican candidates. In a race that sees Republicans eating Republicans, the point seems to be less about the candidates than it is about the kind of school system a right-wing GOP would like to install in Douglas County.

On Election Day, Colorado voters decided against Amendment 47, a contentious “right-to-work” measure that sought to restrict the way unions organized in the state. It has been more than three decades since such a proposal was actually defeated on the ballot.

Now that registration drives are over, unions in Colorado and across the country are working to make sure that voters actually show up to the polls.

Greg Sargent at TPM has a first look at a mailer a labor coalition has set to unleash next week on 1.5 million swing-state households to win back blue collar Democrats who have voted Republican in recent elections.

As president, Barack Obama could radically transform the United States economy, but his policies aren’t progressive enough – yet, according to journalist Robert Kuttner, author of “Obama’s Challenge: America’s Economic Crisis and the Power of a Transformative Presidency.

The AFL-CIO is calling for Denver filmmakers to participate in the organization's first online video competition called "Turn Around America." Winners will be selected...

State Rep. Mike Cerbo would have preferred that the job of executive director of the Colorado AFL/CIO opened up three years from now, when...