Tag: Labor
After Ludlow, workers’ rights still off-balance
Wronged workers want to counterattack, to take back what they feel is rightfully theirs. They expect justice. But the law offers little to set things right.
The massacre in iambic pentameter
David Mason, the son of Colorado natives, is a literature and creative writing professor at Colorado College and the state’s poet laureate. He grew...
On-shore oil drilling booms in U.S., some areas of Colorado
On-shore oil drilling in the United States is at its highest level since the Reagan administration in 1987, according to the Baker Hughes Rig Count – an industry tracking service. That same national boom is also occurring in Colorado, according to state officials, who point to a flurry of new drilling permits and active wells in Weld County.
Pro-labor Wisconsin video roundup: Tony Schultz and Stephen King
The hundred-thousand-plus crowd that filled downtown Madison, Wisconsin, this weekend is being touted as an answer to the Tea Party rallies that cropped up around the country last year. The pro-labor Madison crowds were larger than any of the Tea Party rallies last year, including the one hosted by Fox personality Glenn Beck in Washington on 12 September 2009.
Vital undocumented workers victims of wage theft, shifting laws
Jacinta Gonzalez, an organizer with the Congress of Day Laborers in New Orleans, tells a story about the abuse of workers rebuilding the city after the devastation of Hurricane Katrina. She once met a man who went to his employer’s house to demand payment for his labor on a construction site after the employer stiffed him of his dues. The man’s boss came at him, swinging a hammer. The worker immediately called the police.
Ritter’s office rejects McInnis call to ‘de-unionize’ state workers
DENVER - Speaking at a conservative confab over the weekend, gubernatorial candidate Scott McInnis renewed his calls to end a 2007 executive order signed by Gov. Bill Ritter allowing state workers to form employee partnerships.
Colorado firms conflicted on immigration debate bumping climate change bill
What do Colorado residents – both the legal and illegal ones – care more about: comprehensive climate change legislation or immigration reform?
Even as blogs...
Bunning’s unemployment benefits blockade now a conservative rallying cry
WASHINGTON-- Sen. Jim Bunning’s (R-Ky.) blockade on extending temporarily unemployment benefits put the Tea Party movement in an unfamiliar position. Instead of nudging the Republican Party to take a stand, activists watched a politician pick an anti-government fight they didn’t even know existed.
State Supreme Court declares ‘clean government’ Amendment 54 unconstitutional
In a four to one vote, the Colorado Supreme Court this morning declared that so-called clean elections Amendment 54 unconstitutionally tramped on the right...