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Labor Unions

  • Blogs

    February 16, 2012

    Cannabis Business Association thinks MMJ industry too young to unionize

    Update:After the announcement that Budding Health medical marijuana centers are unionizing, we reached out to the Cannabis Business Association, whose president, Bob Hoban, had said last year it was premature to mandate labor pacts in such a young industry. We've now spoken to Shawn Coleman, interim ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 4, 2011

    Occupy Denver: Denver Area Labor Federation backs the group with its 50,000 members

    John Fleck.​John Fleck is a blunt man. When he says he's seen social inequality for more than twenty years, he means it. Fleck has been a labor union rep for the same amount of time, which makes him particularly well equipped to speak out against that inequality on behalf of the Denver Area La ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 19, 2011

    Medical marijuana: Cheesecake Lady not buying into the Union just yet

    ​On October 17, the United Food and Commercial Workers International Union announced that it was teaming up to represent employees of the medical marijuana industry in Colorado. Union organizer Mark Belkin said he'd seen overwhelming support for the move, but his enthusiasm now seems to be a ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 18, 2011

    Medical marijuana & unions: Cannabis Business Alliance says it's too soon to organize industry

    ​News that the United Food and Commercial Workers Local 7 had organized medical marijuana workers turned out to be less sweeping than it first seemed. Only staffers at several Fort Collins dispensaries have joined, with the UFCW's contributions to fighting an MMJ dispensary ban there likely in ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 17, 2011

    Medical marijuana workers joining UFCW Local 7: Is weed a growth area for unions?

    Mark Belkin.​The conflict between federal and state laws present a challenge to the medical marijuana industry, as last week's DEA raid on the Cherry Top Farms dispensary demonstrates. But there's also growing institutional acceptance, illustrated by today's press conference announcing the uni ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 12, 2010

    Hackers break into UFCW Local 7 system, send message attacking new president Kim Cordova

    Not every UFCW Local 7 member is a big Kim Cordova fan.​As documented in Melanie Asmar's December feature "Can a Mild-Mannered Grocery Clerk Solve the Grocery Workers' Labor Strife?," United Food and Commercial Workers Local 7 has been rocked by a power struggle between supporters of previous ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 18, 2009

    Safeway belatedly responds to rejection of its latest contract offer

    ​Yesterday, King Soopers formally, and finally, acknowledged that its grocery workers had accepted the company's last, best and final contract offer. But silenced prevailed at Safeway, whose employees turned down pretty much the same deal -- until today. The firm's release focuses most of its ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 15, 2009

    Surprising split vote by grocery workers: King Soopers employees accept offer, Safeway staffers reject it

    ​Update, 12:27 p.m.: United Food and Commercial Workers Local 7 spokeswoman Laura Chapin shares comments about the grocery-workers vote below the original item: This just in: King Soopers and City Market employees have voted to accept a contract offer from their company, while their peers at ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 10, 2009

    Jobbed: King Soopers scabs, uh, replacement workers

    ​Having trouble finding work? You're not alone. Follow Jobbed every week as we troll for the weird, the wacky and the worst of what the recession-era world of job ads has to offer. The Job, as posted online: Temporary Replacement Clerk at King Soopers Responsibilities: King Soopers will be h ... More >>

  • News

    December 3, 2009

    Can a mild-mannered bakery clerk solve the grocery workers' labor strife?

    ​Having trouble finding work? You're not alone. Follow Jobbed every week as we troll for the weird, the wacky and the worst of what the recession-era world of job ads has to offer. The Job, as posted online: Temporary Replacement Clerk at King Soopers Responsibilities: King Soopers will be h ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 30, 2009

    Does a mail-in vote for a new grocery contract make ratification more likely?

    A rally at UFCW 7 headquarters earlier this year.​Word broke last week that King Soopers and Safeway workers affiliated with United Food and Commercial Workers Local 7 would soon begin voting on the companies' last, best and final contract offer. But customers and employees alike won't know if ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 17, 2009

    King Soopers and Safeway barely get "last, best and final offer" to grocery workers under the wire

    Will grocery shoppers be seeing signs like these in the near future?​Update below: King Soopers and Safeway told United Food and Commercial Workers Local 7 reps they'd submit their "last, best and final" offer by the end of yesterday -- and they almost missed their own deadline. Just shy of 6 ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 16, 2009

    Read the letter about King Soopers' "last, best and final" offer to grocery workers

    ​Today, King Soopers and Safeway are expected to submit their "last, best and final" offer to grocery workers. Don't know much about the details yet, or whether the proposal will be notably different from the ones members of the United Food and Commercial Workers Local 7 have roundly rejected ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 11, 2009

    While grocery workers fret, their union bosses are busy fighting

    Melanie AsmarKim Cordova and Cindy Lucero in front of the UFCW headquarters.​ Kim Cordova and Cindy Lucero, the president-elect and secretary-treasurer-elect of the United Food and Commercial Workers Local 7, stood in front of the union's empty headquarters in Wheat Ridge this afternoon and, w ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 29, 2009

    A grocery worker talks about potential strike, lockout

    ​On October 20, talks between grocery workers and Safeway about a new contract broke down only a few hours after they'd started up again -- and later that week, King Soopers employees were given a letter strongly implying that if Safeway staffers struck, they'd be locked out. It's a scenario f ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 23, 2009

    Read the letter from a King Soopers exec threatening a lockout if union workers strike Safeway

    ​Yesterday, in the wake of a negotiating breakdown between Safeway and United Food and Commercial Workers Local 7, King Soopers employees were given a letter attributed to Dave Savage, vice president of retail operations for the firm. The document accuses the union of "recklessly pursuing a co ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 7, 2009

    How imminent is a grocery-workers strike after latest contract rejection?

    Are signs like these in the future for Coloado grocery shoppers?​Yesterday, the last votes by unionized Safeway workers were counted, and once again, they turned thumbs-down on a contract that struck plenty of employees as extremely familiar. According to United Food and Commercial Workers Loc ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 21, 2009

    Zero progress evident in grocery-worker negotiations

    An icon from the AlwaysHereForColorado.com site.​In early May, it looked like a strike against King Soopers, Safeway and Albertsons by union employees was a real possibility. Since then, however, the situation has dragged out and out and out, with continued extensions creating little pressure ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 14, 2009

    Grocery-workers union recalls Soopers' first King

    The contract dispute involving workers at King Soopers, Safeway and Albertsons has been quiet of late, with United Food and Commercial Workers International Union Local 7 seeking to maintain member loyalty during this period via releases about, for example, pension reductions that would go into ef ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 16, 2009

    Grocery workers, management in potential-strike staredown

    An image from the AlwaysHereForColorado.com website. Just as they did in early May, King Soopers employees rejected the company's latest contract offer. In a press release, the United Food and Commercial Workers Union Local No. 7, characterized the margin of defeat as overwhelming and urged "the co ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 1, 2009

    It's quiet on the potential grocery store strike or lockout front

    The latest contract extension between King Soopers and workers represented by the United Food and Commercial Workers Union Local #7 expired at midnight on May 30. But as of this writing, at least, nothing much has happened. It's been clear for weeks that neither management nor labor really want a ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 22, 2009

    If there's a grocery strike, what will you do?

    A Flickr photoWorkers picket a California Albertsons in 2003 Have you worked out your supermarket strike plan? If you haven't, now might be a good time. Although the corporate execs and lawyers at Safeway, King Soopers and Albertsons are still negotiating with the familiar, name-tagged faces who ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 11, 2009

    Management, union really don't want a grocery strike

    The decision by employees at King Soopers and Safeway to keep working amid continuing negotiations with management through at least May 30 despite the fact that their respective contracts have expired indicates an understanding that striking amid an economic downturn is a worst-case scenario for a ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 6, 2009

    Grocery-workers union ratchets up web presence prior to possible strike

    Yesterday, King Soopers employees represented by the United Food and Commercial Workers Union Local No. 7 rejected the chain's latest proposal, laying the groundwork for a potential May 9 strike. Taking such an action in this employment environment is risky, as witnessed by the long lines of folks ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 31, 2008

    Are unions gunning for Ryan Frazier because of his Amendment 47?

    Has the other shoe finally dropped for up-and-coming Republican Ryan Frazier? The Aurora city councilman made headlines - as well as enemies - for sponsoring the controversial "right to work" ballot measure Amendment 47 this past November, and even though it lost at the polls, unions, many of which ... More >>

  • News

    October 16, 2008

    Ryan Frazier puts his job on the line with Amendment 47

    Has the other shoe finally dropped for up-and-coming Republican Ryan Frazier? The Aurora city councilman made headlines - as well as enemies - for sponsoring the controversial "right to work" ballot measure Amendment 47 this past November, and even though it lost at the polls, unions, many of which ... More >>

  • News

    August 7, 2008

    At DNC, a suite deal for Stan Kroenke

    Has the other shoe finally dropped for up-and-coming Republican Ryan Frazier? The Aurora city councilman made headlines - as well as enemies - for sponsoring the controversial "right to work" ballot measure Amendment 47 this past November, and even though it lost at the polls, unions, many of which ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 2, 2007

    Day Five: Wherein I Resolve to Become a Hollywood Script Scab and Man-Whore

    Has the other shoe finally dropped for up-and-coming Republican Ryan Frazier? The Aurora city councilman made headlines - as well as enemies - for sponsoring the controversial "right to work" ballot measure Amendment 47 this past November, and even though it lost at the polls, unions, many of which ... More >>

  • News

    September 11, 2003

    Talking Dirty

    Denver's janitors were being swept aside. Now they're winning respect.

  • News

    June 12, 2003

    Critical Condition

    Denver Health nurses are ready to unionize to save their profession.

  • News

    December 12, 2002

    Bring It On

    Despite union efforts, Wal-Mart is not a cheer-ocracy.

  • News

    February 8, 2001

    Check-out Time

    The hotel union isn't about to let Denver forget the Adam's Mark.

  • News

    November 23, 2000

    The Cowboy Way

    Federal prison guards accused of beating inmates have their own support group -- the officers' union.

  • News

    March 9, 2000

    Company Town

    In Pueblo, the iron will of a union has proved tougher than steel.

  • News

    February 17, 2000

    Look for the Union URL

    At the federal supermax, it isn't just the inmates who think management is unfair.

  • News

    February 10, 2000

    Organized Chaos

    The labor movement at Swedish Medical Center could be catching.

  • News

    April 8, 1999

    No Labor Lost

    Ellen Golombek plays rough with the Capitol bosses.

  • News

    August 13, 1998

    Off Limits

    Ellen Golombek plays rough with the Capitol bosses.

  • News

    July 23, 1998

    Janitors in a Conundrum

    A bitter labor dispute envelops the Denver Tech Center.

  • News

    February 5, 1998

    Union Busted

    A young woman gets $200,000 to settle a lawsuit against a union concerning a sexual assault.

  • News

    August 28, 1997

    Letters

    A young woman gets $200,000 to settle a lawsuit against a union concerning a sexual assault.

  • News

    August 14, 1997

    Up the Organization

    Upstart Jack Hawkins tries to win control of the state AFL-CIO.

  • News

    May 15, 1997

    An Unholy Union

    A young labor organizer was sexually assaulted by a colleague. Was Local 7 to blame?

  • News

    March 7, 1996

    Labor Pangs

    AFSCME mounts another attempt to unionize Denver city workers.

  • News

    March 7, 1996

    Taking Its Toll

    Labor STRIFE, racial tension and a "disadvantaged" owner who drives a Mercedes: between the lines of DIA's controversial parking contract.

  • News

    July 26, 1995

    LABOR PAINS

    AN EX-LAWYER FOR THE TEAMSTERS HAS A CAR WINDOW BLOWN OUT BY A PIPE BOMB.

  • News

    October 19, 1994

    THE BIG HURT

    TRUTH IS THE FIRST CASUALTY IN THE POLITICAL WAR OVER AMENDMENT 11.

  • News

    June 22, 1994

    PRINTS CHARMING

    TRUTH IS THE FIRST CASUALTY IN THE POLITICAL WAR OVER AMENDMENT 11.

  • News

    May 11, 1994

    THE CASTLE ON THE HILL

    IT WAS MAN VERSUS MACHINE. AND THE ARISTOCRATS OF LABOR LOST.THE LAST OF THEIR TYPE RESIDENTS OF THE UNION PRINTERS HOME LEAVE A LASTING IMPRESSION.

  • News

    May 4, 1994

    MINDING THE STORE

    THEY DON'T MAKE BOMBS ANYMORE AT ROCKY FLATS. BUT THE PLANT IS AS DANGEROUS AS EVER.

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