We're campaigning to win collective bargaining rights for Denver city and county workers.
Our city and county workers keep Denver running. Everyone deserves safe jobs, family-sustaining wages, and time to spend with loved ones.
This fall, voters will decide whether or not to grant employees of the City and County of Denver the rights to collective bargaining. Collective bargaining means employees and their employer sit down to negotiate and come to agreement on terms and conditions of employment. Collective bargaining is in the public interest. When public workers have the ability to collectively address workplace issues they are better able to advocate for the public they serve.
Denver is a solitary outlier among peer cities; every single other democratically controlled large US city in purple or blue states has collective bargaining for its municipal workforce. Since 2022, all county workers in Colorado have collective bargaining rights. It is time for Denver workers to secure these basic rights. Read the full Council-referred charter amendment and vote yes on 2U!
Who will be impacted?
Except for public safety, most of the 11,000 employees in the City and County of Denver do not have the right to collective bargaining. Many frontline employees of the City and County of Denver will be impacted by the ballot measure that would give City and County of Denver employees union collective bargaining rights.
City and County of Denver workers who would gain union collective bargaining rights if the ballot measure passes include library workers, parks and rec workers, public health workers, human services workers, Denver water, public works workers and more. Denver social workers, librarians, recycling/trash collectors, animal shelter workers, and recreation coaches are also included in the union collective bargaining rightsballot measure 2U.
Denver firefighters, police officers and teachers have had these collective bargaining rights for decades. It's time to extend these basic workplace protections to all city employees.
Vote YES on 2U!
