Colorado State University students and Fort Collins city workers marched from the Lory Student Center Plaza to the Federal Building in a demonstration advocating for workers’ rights and labor unions Friday, May 2.
The message of the demonstration was to demand Gov. Jared Polis to sign SB25-005, otherwise known as the Worker Protection Act. The bill, formally called the Worker Protection Collective Bargaining Act, would eliminate the requirement for employees to conduct a second election to negotiate a union security agreement clause in the collective bargaining process.
The march was organized by the Fort Collins chapter of Democratic Socialists of America and joined by the Communications Workers of America Union and the Poudre Education Association…