Posts tagged Colorado Springs
‘This is us continuing that work’: Colorado lawmakers reintroduce bill to make forming unions easier
March 26, 2026 // Legislation to consolidate unionizing in Colorado from a two-election process to a one-election process is back, but will Governor Polis approve this year’s version? Last year, lawmakers passed SB25-005, which sponsors said would make it easier for workers to unionize and thus would raise wages. The new version of this bill, HB26-1005, largely does the same thing.
New Podcast: What’s Going On In Colorado’s District 11?
June 25, 2025 // Why does CSEA choose to use a physical voting system with half sheets of copy or paper when anyone could tell you that they could get a more secure verified and greater turnout if they send out something as simple as an email to their members. Doing a physical easily hacked voting system I propose to you implies that CSEA's top priority is not voting integrity but something else entirely. Second of all CSEA claims a 91% victory but they won't tell anyone how many people members actually voted. This means as few as literally five members could have voted to strike.
Chaos in Colorado – Teacher Strike Just the Latest Union Scheme in D11
June 16, 2025 // On average in Colorado, one in five teachers change districts every year, which means 20 percent of those who supposedly voted for the strike won’t even be around to deal with the consequences. But the teachers who do stay will be the ones footing the bill — in stress, pay and broken trust with their students and schools. CSEA’s strike spectacle isn’t about working conditions. It’s not about pay. It’s about union leaders panicking over losing their long-held access to power.
COLORADO: District 11 Board of Education votes to dissolve teachers’ master agreement
January 6, 2025 // District 11 Board of Education voted to dissolve the teachers’ master agreement. The decades-old master agreement was a contract that outlined working conditions, salaries and benefits for certified staff.
New labor union on brink of forming in Colorado Springs
August 27, 2024 // A labor union that represents some 7,000 licensed doctors and advanced-practice clinicians nationwide is on the cusp of forming in Colorado Springs. Leaders of the Union of American Physicians and Dentists announced during a press conference Monday that they had at that minute submitted a filing with the National Labor Relations Board, an independent federal agency, to trigger organized unionization for providers at 20 medical clinics of Peak Vista Community Health Centers in the region.