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Senate Lends Ear to Workplace Safety Failures

Businesses in the United States are ignoring obligations to protect workers on the job and are cutting costs at the expense of employee safety,...

State Employees Are Organizers in Country’s Largest Union Campaign

Colorado employees are participating in the largest union campaign in the nation in a push organize 32,000 state workers, according to union officials...

Bush’s Labor Department Sets Priorities Against Organized Labor

The federal Labor Department is using taxpayer funds to target and investigate labor unions under the Bush administration, while operations to enforce minimum wage...

Convention Deadline Looms For Hyatt Workers

A tentative agreement has been reached between the Hyatt Regency hotel at the Denver Convention Center and unionized employees. The city's two most prominent...

Rural Colorado Struggling With Food and Health Care Costs, Study Shows

For the first time in four years, charities are able to gauge what it takes to make it in Colorado, and the outlook isn't...

Report: Minimum Wage Is Not Enough

While voters opted to raise the Colorado minimum wage in 2006, the new wage still isn't nearly enough for a single individual to be...

Bush Aims to Change Labor Landscape Before Leaving

The sun is setting on President George W. Bush's second term in office, but that hasn't deterred the administration from pushing initiatives that would...

Labor Conflict Takes Off at Denver Airport

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

Colorado Wins Funds to Provide Job Training in Energy Field

The U.S. Department of Labor has awarded Colorado $2 million to prepare workers for careers in the energy industry, according to an agency announcement...

‘Right To Work’ Goes to Washington for Supreme Court Challenge

While hired petition carriers are beginning to collect signatures to put a "right to work" initiative on the ballot in Colorado, the U.S. Supreme...