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Teachers at Jewish Community Center preschool in Denver push to unionize 2024-04-02 [The Post]

Union members rally at state Capitol to push for bill to protect workers in Colorado who refuse to attend mandatory meetings 2024-03-21 [CBS]

Some Colorado Coalition for the Homeless workers are pushing for a labor union, citing low pay and high turnover 2024-03-12 [Denverite]

Starbucks workers make another push to unionize shops, including in the Mountain West 2024-03-03 [APR]

CO lawmakers want to increase wages for tipped workers 2024-02-17 [ABC]

Labor union growth flat in U.S. but not in CO 2024-01-28 [CO Sun]

Denver Art Museum workers launch campaign to form union 2024-01-13 [The Art Newspaper]

Alamo Drafthouse employees vote to unionize at Colorado location, push for union at another 2024-01-03 [CBS]

Paid Family Leave Benefits Begin Jan 1 For Colorado Workers 2024-01-01 [CO DOL]

Minimum wage workers to see $1 increase in pay starting Monday 2023-12-30 [CBS]

State workers at CSU Pueblo win better working conditions in new contract 2023-12-24 [Pueblo Chieftain]

Artistic workers at Opera Colorado win their union. Next comes collective bargaining 2023-11-23 [CO Sun]

Workers at one Colorado opera company push to unionize as another is accused of union busting 2023-09-07 [The Sun]

Kaiser Permanente workers in Colorado authorize strike as negotiations grow tense 2023-09-03 [CPR News]

Creative, cultural and service-industry workers look to unions for leverage 2023-08-15 [The Post]

CWA Activists in CO Secure Major Legislative Win for Public Workers 2023-06-08 [CWA]

Bennet, Hickenlooper Introduce Legislation to Address Rising Threats Against Election Workers 2022-09-29 [Bennet]

Railroad workers warn that BNSF's “harsh” new policy may force them to work while sick, exhausted 2022-04-08 [CO Sun]

Health care workers replaced Denver cops in handling hundreds of mental health and substance abuse cases — and officials say it saved lives 2021-02-07 [CBS]

Unions fought for a higher minimum wage — and won 2020-01-24 [Politics]

Denver Public Schools should live the value of “equity” – starting with low-wage workers 2020-07-11 [Denver Post]

‘They don't care about us': US Starbucks workers allege they were fired for union activity 2022-07-09 [Guardian]

‘Workers are winning': Colorado law hailed as important victory for public sector workers 2022-06-13 [Guardian]

Denver teachers are on the brink of a strike. Here's how we got here and what could be next 2019-02-01 [Chalkbeat]

Colorado Gig Workers Say They're Shortchanged By New Unemployment System 2020-05-10 [CPR News]

Denver Public Schools, union reach tentative agreement to end city's first teachers strike in 25 years 2019-02-14 [Denver Post]

Colorado's unemployed workers face a big hit if federal assistance gets cut off in two weeks 2020-07-11 [Denver Post]

State Senate is considering the Agricultural Workers' Rights Bill For more info 2021-06-02 [Western Slope Now]

VA Workers Rally in Aurora Against Trump's Assault on Federal Labor Unions 2019-08-08 [Westword]

Workers at East Colfax Starbucks could have their union election overturned after company files complaint 2022-06-01 [Denverite]

CO legislature passes historic collective bargaining bill 2022-05-14 [AFSCME]

Baristas in Superior win first Starbucks union election in CO 2022-04-23 [CPR News]

Vote count complete-Longmont Hospital nurses win their union 2022-04-01 [National Nurses United]

Union push growing for Starbucks employees 2022-03-14 [KKTV 11]

Starbucks Workers Strike Over Unfair Labor Practices 2022-03-15 [Left Voices ]

As locals are priced out, Colorado mountain towns fight to keep workers 2022-03-06 [NBC]

King Soopers strike continues as both sides agree to negotiate for fourth day 2022-01-18 [NBC]

King Soopers is hiring strike breakers in Colorado 2022-01-17 [LaborLab]

King Soopers union rallies, calls management back to negotiating table 2022-01-15 [Greeley Tribune]

8,400 Kroger Workers Go on Strike as Study Highlights Economic Plight of Grocery Workers 2022-01-14 [Democracy Now]

Workers at nearly 80 Kroger's King Soopers go on strike as talks stall 2022-01-13 [Saltwire]

King Soopers, City Market workers in Denver, Colorado Springs authorize strike as contract deadline looms 2022-01-05 [CPR News]

Workers, officials: $15 minimum for home-care providers is a step toward fixing workforce problem 2022-01-02 [Denver Post]

Union sues King Soopers for allegedly allowing non-union employees to do work covered by CBA 2022-01-02 [BizWest / Prairie Mountain Media]

CO Democrats eye sweeping new union rights for more than 250,000 public sector workers 2021-12-26 [Denver Post]

Law to give 'basic rights' to Colorado farmworkers draws praise, criticism 2021-10-30 [KUSA-TV 9News]

After a year-plus of essential work, employees at Aurora HelloFresh pushing to unionize 2021-10-04 [Denver Post]

Health care workers hit the streets to protest vaccine mandate 2021-08-24 [NBC]

Colorado Office Workers Are More Uncertain Than Ever Over Return-To-Workplace Plans Amid The Delta Variant Surge 2021-08-19 [CPR]

Colorado AFL-CIO decides to stop donating to Colorado Democratic Party 2021-07-30 [Denver Post]

This month in labour history

This month in labour history

3-04-1968 In a church in Memphis, Tennessee, 10,000 citizens gather to hear what will be the last speech by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. He will stress the similarities between the labour movement and that of civil rights. [more]

8-04-1911 An explosion at the Banner coal mine near Birmingham, Alabama, kills 128 prisoners rented to the company as miners, under a contract with the prison administration. [more]

10-04-1930 Dolores Huerta, Mexican-American labour leader, is born. [more]

11-04-1934 Frank Norman is murdered by the Ku Klux Klan for organising citrus workers irrespective of their race. [more]

11-04-1974 United Mine Workers President W. A. “Tony” Boyle is found guilty of first-degree murder, for ordering the 1969 assassination of union reformer Joseph A. “Jock” Yablonski. Yablonski, his wife and daughter were murdered on December 30, 1969. [more]

14-04-1939 'The Grapes of Wrath', John Steinbeck's classic novel about itinerant labor, strikes and the Great Depression, is published. [more]

15-04-1889 Birth of labour and civil rights leader A. Phillip Randolph [more]

15-04-1916 The newspaper of the Industrial Workers of the World union announced the formation of its Domestic Workers Union in Denver. [more]

15-04-1973 housands of members of the United Farm Workers union walked out on strike. They were battling the Teamsters union over the right to represent farm workers. The dispute ended with victory for the UFW. [more]

16-04-1970 A white foreman at a Chrysler plant in Detroit threatened to murder a black worker. When the worker complained Chrysler sacked him. 1,000 workers, white and black, walked out on strike in protest until management backed down. [more]

17-04-1944 Members of the militant machinists' union Lodge 68 in San Francisco began an overtime ban in pursuance of a new contract. They ended up fighting the employer, the government and even the Communist Party. [more]

18-04-1941 After 4 weeks of a boycott, New York bus companies agree to hire 200 black drivers and mechanics [more]

21-04-1967 New York Governor Rockefeller signs the Taylor Law, allowing unions in the public sector, but banning strikes. [more]

21-04-1920 The Anaconda Road massacre took place in Butte, Montana, when mine guards employed by the Anaconda company shot 17 striking miners, killing one. All were shot in the back as they tried to flee. No one was charged for the killing. [more]

21-04-1894 A nationwide strike of coal miners against pay cuts began. 145,000 miners walked out, and despite violent repression and facing starvation they held out for weeks and won some concessions. [more]

24-04-1999 The ILWU halts shipping on the West Coast in solidarity with Mumia Abu-Jamal. [more]