Faculty, staff, and student workers are organizing a systemwide call for collective bargaining rights on University of Colorado campuses from Boulder to Colorado Springs. Organizers launched the effort earlier this week, holding rallies in Boulder, Denver, and Anschutz.
According to Chloe East, an associate professor of economics at the University of Colorado Boulder, more than 40 people attended the Boulder demonstration on Tuesday.
“The rally was right next to the student center … We had speakers from all classifications on campus. There were tenure-track faculty, non-tenure-track faculty, students, and staff who all spoke about what collective bargaining means for them,” said East, who is also vice president of United Campus Workers of Colorado, the union representing faculty, staff, and student employees across the CU system…