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Wheelchair attendants at Denver airport strike over health, safety issues
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About 66 wheelchair attendants and baggage handlers walked off their jobs at Denver International Airport on Tuesday in a dispute over workplace and safety issues. The employees – all contract workers with Prospect Airport Services – say they’ve been unable to get management to respond to a variety of health and safety issues, including the…
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Poll: Polis leading Kennedy, but both best Stapleton
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Jared Polis holds a lead over Cary Kennedy atop the four-way Democratic primary to be Colorado’s next governor, but both would defeat Republican frontrunner Walker Stapleton by the same margin, according to a new survey. The survey was conducted by polling and communications firm Strategies 360 for the Service Employees International Union’s Colorado Small Donor Committee and…
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Q&A with Scott Wasserman: ‘The best politics are centered around policy debates, not culture wars’
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The Bell Policy Center is by many accounts the brain trust of Colorado’s center-left. Meet the brain-truster in chief, Scott Wasserman. Going on two years now as the think tank’s president, Wasserman helms an operation that provides a knowledge base and idea incubator for many of the state’s leading Democratic policy makers. But Wasserman doesn’t…
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Labor veteran Ellen Golombek moves on, draws praise from Hick
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Ellen Golombek will be leaving her role as executive director of the Colorado Department of Labor and Employment at the end of October, the office of Gov. John Hickenlooper announced. The office issued a statement from Hickenlooper today crediting Golombek with having “transformed” the labor department since taking the helm in 2011. The statement said…
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? Ruggiero and Griffin: Working families deserve concrete solutions, not just campaign soundbites
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Finally, some good news about working families in this country: in 2015, lower and middle income workers saw real income gains, and the median income gain was 5.2 percent. It confirms what most of us know: working families are what is leading us out of the recession. They are the bedrock of the recovery. When…
