Unions

Tens of thousands of health care workers have ratified a new four-year contract with industry giant Kaiser Permanente following a strike over wages and staffing levels.

After a nationwide strike among unionized Kaiser Permanente workers in early October, the union and the health care company have announced a tentative agreement.

A massive health care strike over wages and staff shortages is heading into its final day without a deal between industry giant Kaiser Permanente and the unions representing the 75,000 workers who picketed this week.

Thousands of Kaiser Permanente healthcare workers in Colorado have walked off the job for three days. They say they are stretched thin amid a serious employee shortage and want better pay. Also on today's episode — what sprouted from a group of volunteer musicians a century ago has blossomed into a Northern Colorado institution.

Health care workers across Colorado went on strike Wednesday to demand fair wages and better staffing from the health care company Kaiser Permanente.

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.

A Pew Research Center analysis found that one in six journalists are now part of a union, and more than twice that want to join one. However, it also found that smaller publications, like those in the rural Mountain West, are less likely to unionize. Of those with fewer than 10 people, only 4% have a union.

Many officials proudly talk up the unique decision-making powers Colorado gives the smallest levels of government. Some bills this session would shift more county and municipal powers to the state, leading to concerns about Colorado’s emphasis on “local control” going away.

A union representing workers at JBS USA-owned meatpacking plant in Greeley where six workers died of COVID-19 and hundreds more were infected staged a protest Wednesday, claiming that federal officials should have fined the company more for its alleged failure to provide safe working conditions.

Union transit workers have accepted a new contract agreement, avoiding a strike at the public transportation agency in western Colorado.The Daily Sentinel…