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United Airlines challenges Colorado’s 2020 sick leave mandate
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United Airlines, Inc. has filed suit in federal court seeking a declaration that a 2020 state law mandating paid sick leave does not apply to its employees in Colorado. The lawsuit, filed on Jan. 13, claims the Airline Deregulation Act of 1978 prohibits states from enacting regulations related to the “service of an air carrier.”…
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Denver International Airport to review thousands of flight cancellations over holiday weekend
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The Denver International Airport will work with Southwest, Frontier and United Airlines to review why thousands of Colorado flights were canceled or delayed over the Christmas holiday weekend. Airport authorities announced Wednesday that it would conduct the reviews over the next two weeks. The reviews aim to uncover what happened, why it happened and how…
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Denver International Airport gains new businesses, eyes area development
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Denver International Airport officials added popular Denver restaurants to its lineup of 170 businesses in an effort to give travelers a taste of Denver. Meanwhile, Great Hall improvements continue as does the rollout of a program to spur development on airport land. From the recent opening popular VooDoo Doughnuts – known for its distinctive pink…
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A LOOK BACK | Colorado legislator repeals state’s anti-miscegenation law
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Sixty-Five Years Ago This Week: State Rep. Bob Allen, D-Denver, was sponsoring House Bill 57-1039 which would repeal Colorado’s anti-miscegenation law. The law stated, “All marriages between Negroes or mulattoes of either sex and white persons are declared to be absolutely void.” Fifteen years previously Colorado’s Supreme Court had ruled in Jackson v. Denver that…
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10th Circuit upholds age discrimination verdict against United Airlines
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There was sufficient evidence for a jury to find that United Airlines willfully violated federal age discrimination law by forcing two longtime flight attendants into retirement, the federal appeals court based in Denver concluded. United had sought to overturn the verdict from the 2018 jury trial by arguing there was no direct evidence of age…
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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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The best and worst of public relations in 2017 — minus Denver’s Ink! Coffee debacle
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Who made good in 2017 and who ended the year with a whole mess of egg on their faces? Jeremy Story of GroundFloor Media, who blogs under DenverPRblog, has now put out his list of the best public relations and biggest snafus of 2017. Story’s “best of” list was mighty short for 2017, with just…
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Photo Gallery: Colorado Remembers 9/11 event
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A photo gallery compiled by Statesman photographers from the Colorado Remembers 9/11 event that took place Sunday, September 11, 2016, in downtown Denver’s Civic Center Park to mark the 15th Anniversary of 9/11.
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YESTERYEAR: Lawmakers scramble to pass United Airlines deal in special session
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Twenty-five Years Ago this week in The Colorado Statesman … Legislators were working overtime in a special session called by Gov. Roy Romer to put together an incentive deal to bring “a billion-dollar shower of money” to the Denver area by luring a United Airlines maintenance center, a reservations “megacenter” and expanded flight operations by…
