labor
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Federal judge moves forward on union’s claim that King Soopers is violating agreement
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A federal judge on Wednesday determined he could legally consider the request of a grocery workers’ union to block King Soopers from using non-union personnel to tend to garden displays, a move the United Food and Commercial Workers alleges is in violation of their labor contract. UFCW’s Local 7 represents retail and meat department workers…
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Denver workers receive $1.1 million in restitution
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Denver’s workers will receive $1.1 million in restitution in 2022, due to Denver Labor’s enforcement activities and work with cooperative employers who raised wages due to the law, according to a news release. The Denver Labor Division of the Auditor’s Office will launch a tool to connect eligible workers to the money they are owed,…
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Judge green-lights forced-labor lawsuit against operator of Aurora detention center
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A federal judge last week refused to throw out a long-running lawsuit against private prison operator The GEO Group, and is instead permitting a jury to decide whether the company violated federal human trafficking law and unjustly enriched itself off of detainee labor in Aurora. In unusually strong terms, U.S. District Court Senior Judge John…
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Colorado unemployment rate drops again in April, matches national rate
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Colorado’s unemployment rate continued to improve last month, another sign of job market resiliency as private businesses and the state economy regain their footing after a recession triggered by the COVID-19 pandemic two years ago, according to a report Friday by the state Department of Labor and Employment. The state’s jobless rate dipped to 3.6%…
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Labor lining up behind Tedesco in Democratic primary for Colorado’s new congressional seat
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Democratic congressional candidate Charles “Chaz” Tedesco, an Adams County commissioner and former local union president, this week added more unions to an already labor-heavy list of endorsers. Tedesco is facing three Democrats in a primary to represent Colorado’s new, highly competitive 8th Congressional District, which covers suburban Adams County and parts of Weld County, including…
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Judge gives tentative OK to class-action lawsuit against King Soopers
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A federal judge has given preliminary approval to a class-action lawsuit against The Kroger Company seeking to allow salaried supervisors at King Soopers, a brand of Kroger, to recover overtime compensation they are allegedly owed. U.S. District Court Chief Judge Philip A. Brimmer certified, as a class of plaintiffs, all current and former supervisors of…
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Colorado’s job recovery lags behind neighboring states
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While Colorado has out-performed the majority of states, it lags behind its neighbors in recovering jobs lost during the pandemic. Four Western states – Arizona, Idaho, Texas and Utah – already recovered all the jobs they lost at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. Colorado, by contrast, has regained 335,500 of the 375,800 jobs lost between…
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Polis touts jobs gains, decline in Colorado’s unemployment rate
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Colorado’s unemployment rate fell under 5% for the first time since the global COVID-19 pandemic forced countries to shut down borders and adopted drastic measures to curb its spread, including closing down gyms, restaurants and other public places. The bulk of those restrictions, including several that the Polis administration adopted at the early stage of…
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Q&A with Josette Jaramillo | Reframing the conversation to workplace issues
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Josette Jaramillo was elected this fall to a second four-year term as president of the Colorado AFL-CIO, a federation of some 185 unions with 130,000 members in the state. A supervisor with the Pueblo County Department of Human Services’ Child Welfare division, Jaramillo is a longtime member of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal…
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Audit says state has done little to recover $73 million paid out in fraudulent unemployment claims
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The Department of Labor and Employment (CDLE) may have paid out $73.1 million in potentially fraudulent claims during the first 14 months of the pandemic and has done little to resolve those fraudulent claims, including recovering the money, an audit released Monday said. But the department’s lack of effective processes also meant that the majority…
