The third of three bills intended to address gun violence in Colorado cleared a state Senate panel on Tuesday, with emotional testimony from gun control advocates and, for the first
Construction is ongoing at the wastewater treatment plant for the Cherokee Metropolitan District. The district, which serves Cimarron Hills and Schriever Air Force Base, had to prioritize between updating its 17-mile water main built in the 1960s and a new $43 wastewater treatment plant to meet new state regulations, said Amy Lathen, general manager of the district. The pipeline project is on hold.(Photo by Jerilee Bennett, The Gazette)
JERILEE BENNETT THE GAZETTE
The lawmaker who last year helped state employees earn the ability to form unions for purpose of collective bargaining is now looking to expand that right to every public employee in the state.
That would include anyone employed by cities, counties, school, library or fire districts, public colleges or universities, or the office of the state public defender, according to an April 6 working draft obtained by Colorado Politics. Â
House Majority Leader Daneya Esgar, D-Pueblo, who sponsored the 2020 state employee union bill, is sponsoring the legislation to give public employees a say in workplace conditions. They should be allowed to have that conversation, and this bill gives them an avenue to have those conversations, she said.Â