unions
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Poll says support for teachers’ unions collapses, union official contests findings
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Public regard for teachers’ unions took a nosedive in a survey that shows Coloradans strongly supporting parents having more say in their children’s education. The poll, commissioned by Ready Colorado, a pro-school choice that supported a slew of contenders that ran opposite union-backed school board candidates in the last round of school board…
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Local unions endorse Democrat Diana DeGette’s re-election bid
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A slate of local unions endorsed U.S. Rep. Diana DeGette’s bid for a 14th term on Tuesday, calling the Denver Democrat a champion for labor and citing her support for last year’s bipartisan infrastructure bill. DeGette is facing two primary challengers in the overwhelmingly Democratic 1st Congressional District, which she has represented since 1997. Unions…
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Little progress made in King Soopers strike negotiations, officials say
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Both the Kroger Co. and United Food and Commercial Workers Local 7 continued to badmouth the other side Monday as the King Soopers strike stretched into a sixth day, but at least they were still talking at the negotiating table. About 8,400 union workers walked out of 77 metro Denver area King Soopers and City…
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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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FEEDBACK | American Indians and the internet; Dems and abortion — and more
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Access trumps ‘net neutrality’ for Native Americans I am very concerned about an upcoming vote on the Congressional Review Act (CRA) for Net Neutrality. I agree that Internet Service Providers (ISPs) should not block or censor content, but the CRA is not the way to codify that. If the CRA passes, it will impose utility-style…
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FEEDBACK | Ruling undercut unions — our only bridge to a better life
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The Supreme Court just ruled against millions of Americans who can’t make ends meet even though they’re working as many hours as they can. Billionaires used the Janus case to rig the rules to make it harder for working people to form a union. But what they don’t understand is no court case is going…
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Teamsters endorse Cary Kennedy in Democratic gubernatorial primary
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DENVER – Citing her commitment to working people, the Teamsters Local 455 labor union this week endorsed former State Treasurer Cary Kennedy in the Democratic primary for governor. “Kennedy is the best candidate for Colorado’s working families,” said Steve Vairma, secretary-treasurer of the Denver-based Local 455, in a statement. “She is hardworking and focused on…
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Colorado Senate verbally jousts over union activity on the clock
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State Sen. Bob Gardner was having breakfast reading the newspaper when he saw that a public-sector union was on strike elsewhere in the country. The Republican from Colorado Springs was not supportive. “And I got to thinking about the fact that those collective bargaining agreements are often negotiated by people who are being paid by…
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Colorado teachers unions throw support behind Democrat Cary Kennedy in governor’s race
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Democratic gubernatorial candidate Cary Kennedy has landed the backing of two powerful Colorado teachers unions, her campaign said. The Colorado Education Association and the state chapter of the American Federation of Teachers endorsed Kennedy, a former state treasurer, on Wednesday at her campaign headquarters inside a converted, historic elementary school in Denver. Kennedy wrote and…
