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October 10th 2026
Congratulations You Ratified Your Contract!
Of those that voted 83% voted to ratify the contract making it the new collective bargaining agreement (CBA).
The CBA will take effect on January 1st of next year. In the meantime we will work to get it ready to be posted to the website and available for folks. If you have any questions, reach out to a steward or your organizer!
October 8th 2026
Don’t forget to come vote!
We are holding the contract ratification vote virtually and in person today, Friday, October 9th from 8:30am-6:30pm at the Recovery Center (4455 E 12th Ave, Denver, CO 80220) and on Saturday, October 10th from 10am-12pm at the Union Hall (2525 W Alameda Ave Denver CO 80219). There will be four stations at the ratification vote:
Station 1 is a summary of the contract
Station 2 is reserved for questions or for those who want to read the text
Station 3 is a discussion of the ways you can help with future bargaining
Station 4 is for voting
You can go to as many stations as you want. The whole process should not take more than 15 minutes and can go faster if you would like to skip stations.
None of the contract provisions will happen without the majority of voters’ approval, so come learn about and vote on your pay, benefits, and workplace rights!
September 29th 2026
We did it! We reached a Tentative Agreement on the Union Contract!
After many hard weeks of bargaining, you and your colleagues on the bargaining team have gotten management to agree to a deal that meets everyone’s needs. Your efforts in sending a message to management with actions like purpling up, sending emails, and more moved the needle and got management to an agreement. You’ve won the following…
- A 3% increase in pay with $0.50 cent step each year
- Annual wage and benefit reopeners in which the employer will share their finances with the bargaining committee
- Wage scale adjustments for union members with experience that was not recognized
- Safety language that requires the employer to come up with a plan for people served or subcontracting employees who present as a threat to themselves or others
- Language allowing clinicians to refuse to provide conversion therapy as well as any illegal, unethical, or non-evidence based practice
- A reduced probation period from 4 months to 3 months
- PTO Cashout at 100% instead of 50%
- SIB access after the use of 24 consecutive hours of wellbeing time, PTO, or any combination of the two
- Bereavement leave for the death of a PWS
- Protections from Artificial Intelligence replacing your jobs
- And more
Now we need you to vote on this tentative agreement. We will be holding a ratification vote virtually and in person on Friday, October 9th from 8:30am-6:30pm at the Recovery Center (4455 E 12th Ave, Denver, CO 80220) and on Saturday, October 10th from 10am-12pm at the Union Hall (2525 W Alameda Ave Denver CO 80219). You can attend either by following this zoom link [Embed link:https://us06web.zoom.us/j/85476330083] or coming in person while on break, lunch, or before/after your shift. There will be four stations at the ratification vote:
- Station 1 is a summary of the contract
- Station 2 is reserved for questions or for those who want to read the text
- Station 3 is a discussion of the ways you can help with future bargaining
- Station 4 is for voting
You can go to as many stations as you want. The whole process should not take more than 15 minutes and can go faster if you would like to skip stations.
None of the contract provisions will happen without the majority of voters’ approval, so come learn about and vote on your pay, benefits, and workplace rights!
June 8th 2026
We met with management on Friday May 29th where they completed their first counter proposal to us. They provided their proposal on healthcare insurance. They proposed a 10% increase in the premium for each of the next three years (i.e. 10% per year). We will need to push hard for a wage increase that adequately offsets this.
We did notice a slight change in tone from them so the email action that over half of all union members participated in had an effect. Their tone seemed a bit more receptive to feedback and our point of view. Your bargaining team will now try to craft a counter proposal that makes fair concessions to some of their demands in exchange for the company compromising to accept some of our proposals for fair wages, good benefits, adequate time off, and more.
There is something that you can do to help your coworkers and yourselves to achieve the best deal possible.
Our next bargaining session with management will be Friday, July 24th and on Wednesday, July 22nd at 2:30pm there will be an all staff meeting.
We highly encourage everyone to attend this all-staff meeting and show management that you are committed to the bargaining process and want a fair contract!
You can do that by utilizing the virtual background below or changing your profile picture on teams to either of these images!
