JOB POSTING: Labor Relations Specialist

Job location: Denver, Colorado The Labor Relations Specialist supports Service Employees International Union Local 105 for both property services and healthcare employees by negotiating, analyzing, and enforcing collective bargaining agreements as pertaining to financial agreements and worksite issues. Primary job duties include: Work with Director of Finance to conduct payroll information reviews of Union contractors […]

Kaiser Education Fund

KPCO TRAINING NEEDS SURVEY – WE NEED TO HEAR FROM YOU! Help us identify the training you need most by providing direct feedback. The COVID-19 pandemic has further highlighted the importance of offering programs to upgrade the skills of healthcare employees. During the month of May, KPCO employees will get the opportunity to share their […]

✅ COVID-19 Update: Fighting to Protect All Workers

On Saturday, SEIU 105 partnered with our allies in the Rise Up Colorado Coalition (Colorado AFL-CIO, Colorado Education Association, Colorado People’s Alliance, Colorado Working Families Party, Padres y Jovenes Unidos, Together Colorado, United for a New Economy, and 9 to 5). We held a caravan for a People’s Comeback that saw hundreds and hundreds driving around the […]

Ron’s Rundown: Teaching Billionaire Bullies A Lesson

The true character of a person is revealed when they are under crisis. When subjected to extreme stress, the veneer is stripped away, and that person’s core comes out for all the world to see. The same is true for organizations and countries. It’s also true for groups and classes of people. So, what are […]

✅ COVID-19 Update: 105 Fighting and Winning

As the COVID-19 pandemic continues, workers are suffering. As of last Friday, over 16 million workers have filed for unemployment. This already exceeds all unemployment claims during the entire 2008-9 Great Recession. Those still working often face the lack of adequate Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) placing themselves and their families at risk, millions of workers lack any access to […]

Ron’s Rundown: Silencing Healthcare Workers Hurts Us All

There is another epidemic growing right alongside the Coronavirus Pandemic. There is an epidemic of healthcare workers being muzzled by their bosses when they try to speak out about their concerns about unsafe practices at work that expose workers and patients to the coronavirus.  Let me say that more plainly: bosses are silencing their doctors […]

Ron’s Rundown: Jeff Bezos is scared.

That’s the lesson for workers here. Chris Smalls made Jeff Bezos worried about what he and his co-workers were going to do. And, you have the exact same power at your workplace if there are changes that need to happen. Learn this. Remember this. Pass it on to your friends, family, and co-workers.

Ron’s Rundown: Everything’s Collapsing Because Everything Was Already Broken

By Ron Ruggiero, President, SEIU Local 105 We are experiencing a total system collapse in America right now. We are only a few weeks into the Coronavirus pandemic, and the economy, our healthcare system, and our national business and political leadership are collapsing before our very eyes. How could this happen so quickly? As progressives […]