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With less than 60 days left to go and plenty of big, controversial bills still in play, it’s crunch time for state lawmakers.

If the Joint Budget Committee — and the rest of the state legislature — doesn’t fund the raises, it would force the union back to the bargaining table

The World War Two-era law requires unions to take two votes before they can represent workers in labor negotiations.

For 82 years, this law has made unionization more difficult in Colorado.

Democratic lawmakers want to make it easier for workplaces to fully unionize, but their plan to repeal Colorado's one-of-a-kind organizing requirements faces opposition from business and the governor.

Less than 1 percent of hands-on construction workers in Colorado are women. One group wants to encourage young girls about the variety of jobs in the industry through an interactive field day.

Union representatives told Congresswoman Yadira Caraveo at a roundtable this week that a communication breakdown is preventing their members from working on projects receiving federal funding from the Bipartisan Infrastructure Act. They also discussed apprenticeship programs and barriers undocumented people face when hoping to join a union.

Before the pandemic, restaurants accounted for nearly 10% of the state’s labor force. Since the pandemic began, restaurants and the workers who keep them running have been hit hard. An apprenticeship program is pairing young people looking to start a career in the food industry with restaurants looking for help.

The King Soopers strike is emblematic of a broader labor movement sweeping the country, and parts of the Mountain West, as workers walk out for better pay and benefits or unionize to harness their collective power.

Grocery store workers in the Denver area went on strike Wednesday after their union rejected the latest contract offer from a chain of stores owned by Kroger Co., the nation’s largest traditional grocery store chain.