collective bargaining
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D-11 and teachers union prepping for one-day strike
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Years of building tension between Colorado Springs School District 11’s leadership and its teachers’ union may reach its climax this week through a one-day strike set to take place throughout the district and its schools. On Oct. 8, teachers, families and community supporters will gather outside of D-11 schools in the morning before speaking with…
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Polis signs collective bargaining, school funding, dozens of other bills
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Gov. Jared Polis signed dozens of bills into law this week, including the watered-down collective bargaining legislation and hundreds of millions of dollars in funding for public schools. Signed on Friday, Senate Bill 230 extends collective bargaining rights to approximately 36,000 county employees throughout the state. The bill provides the rights in most counties with…
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2022 SESSION: CONFRONTING CRISES | Actions of the 2022 General Assembly
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2022 offered legislators the first real opportunity to set an ambitious agenda after two years of limping through the global pandemic, but Colorado’s emergence out of the COVID-19 crisis also unleashed a torrent of challenges. There were many familiar problems, such as housing, behavioral health and wildfires, as well as new ones, notably soaring inflation…
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Senate is poised to tackle collective bargaining bill that applies only to counties
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Collective bargaining for county workers, one of the biggest bills introduced in the last two weeks of the session that won party-line approvals in committees, is now ready for the full Senate’s consideration. Lawmakers from both sides of the aisle expect an intense debate on Senate Bill 230, which would allow county workers to form…
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County commissioners speak out against collective bargaining bill
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A dozen county commissioners – who represent large, urban counties and some of the state’s smallest, rural ones – spoke out Friday against legislation that initially sought to permit a wide swath of government workers to collectively bargain but which has been winnowed down to just counties. The latest draft of the bill, which is expected…
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Collective bargaining draft bill strips out all public sector employees except for county workers
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Apparently bowing to pressure from the state’s public college and university leaders, a bill that started with allowing collective bargaining for all public sector employees is now down to just one group: county workers. A draft bill obtained by Colorado Politics shows public colleges and universities, which vigorously fought the measure, are no longer included…
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Collective bargaining draft shows counties and higher ed in, K-12 out
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The newest draft of a collective bargaining bill for public sector employees would allow only public sector employees in counties and higher education to set up unions and engage in collective bargaining with their employers. Those employees, under the undated draft, include any employee, save for temporary employees who work less than 90 days over…
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National teacher union leaders visit Colorado to advocate for collective bargaining bill
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Just how significant would it be for Colorado to allow part-time college faculty to unionize and engage in collective bargaining? Look no further than the state Capitol Monday, when national presidents of the American Federation of Teachers and the American Association of University Professors met with Gov. Jared Polis, hoping to keep public higher education…
