By Boulder Weekly Staff - Oct. 30, 2024

Longmont, Lafayette review Vision Zero plans to stop serious car crashes

Gov't watch: What your local officials are up to

By Boulder Weekly Staff - Oct. 16, 2024

Boulder approves minimum wage hike; final vote coming in November

The City of Boulder is set to see a higher minimum wage in 2025 after city council approved an ordinance to increase minimum wage by 8% for the next three...

By Tyler Hickman - Oct. 16, 2024

Cities, county talk budgets; Longmont revisits minimum wage increase

City of Boulder At the Oct. 17 meeting, council will… Hold a second and final public hearing on the city’s 2025 budget. Boulder’s planned spending for next year is $589.5...

By Tyler Hickman - Oct. 2, 2024

Boulder City Council to vote on minimum wage increase

Boulder City Council At the Oct. 10 meeting, council will: Hold a public hearing and preliminary vote on a measure  to increase Boulder’s minimum wage. Registration to speak at the...

By Tyler Hickman - Sep. 18, 2024

Regional efforts to raise the minimum wage stall in four BoCo cities

City of Boulder poised to raise the minimum wage in 2025, while the rest of the county decides to wait.

By Readers like you - Sep. 4, 2024

Letters: Don’t put poison in our drinking water

Readers like you write about the electoral college, wages and poison in the water

By Nicole Speer - Aug. 19, 2024

Wisdom for the wages

How one local lab pays employees a living wage and stays solvent

By Readers like you - Aug. 19, 2024

Demand a livable wage

Workers deserve more than mere survival, former small business owner writes

By Kaylee Harter - Aug. 14, 2024

Boulder City Council to local minimum wage; long-range plan

What your local officials are up to this week

By Shay Castle - Apr. 3, 2024

BoCo, briefly: April 3, 2024

Longmont Starbucks unionizes The workers of a Longmont Starbucks (2318 17th Ave.) voted last week to unionize, becoming the first location in the city to do so, according to Starbucks...

By Kaylee Harter - Feb. 21, 2024

BoCo, briefly: Feb. 21, 2024

Engagement sessions for minimum wage increases BoCo cities are looking for feedback on minimum wage increases that could be coming in January 2025. Boulder, Lafayette, Longmont, Louisville and Erie are...

By Dave Anderson - Jan. 2, 2024

Heavy hitters

Last year was a historically good year for the labor movement as unions won big pay increases and better working conditions. The victories came after strikes and threats of strikes...

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