Tamara Chuang

1 week ago | coloradosun.com | Tamara Chuang

Colorado grocery workers who went on strike at a handful of Safeway stores over the weekend were joined Monday by employees Castle Rock and the Littleton location on Mineral Ave. That brings the number of locations on strike to seven, which includes stores in Estes Park, Fountain, two in Pueblo, plus a Safeway distribution center in Denver. Workers are on the picket lines to protest understaffing, proposed cuts to employee health care benefits and a change to pension benefits for retired workers.

1 week ago | buff.ly | Tamara Chuang

Colorado grocery workers who went on strike at a handful of Safeway stores over the weekend were joined Monday by employees Castle Rock and the Littleton location on Mineral Ave. That brings the number of locations on strike to seven, which includes stores in Estes Park, Fountain, two in Pueblo, plus a Safeway distribution center in Denver. Workers are on the picket lines to protest understaffing, proposed cuts to employee health care benefits and a change to pension benefits for retired workers.

1 week ago | coloradosun.com | Tamara Chuang

Union workers at Safeway stores in Estes Park, Fountain and two stores in Pueblo walked off the job Sunday morning after a temporary contract extension ended with no agreement. Employees at the Safeway distribution center in Denver also joined the strike. Understaffed stores, changes to health benefits and low wage increases are top issues for the union, as has been the case since the first contracts began expiring in January.

1 week ago | coloradosun.com | Tamara Chuang

Quick links: | | | Denver inflation below US | Job fair alert GRAND JUNCTION — Before the pandemic, Doug Simons was planning to expand Enstrom Candies operations north of its downtown headquarters and closer to the highway. “We’d actually designed a 125,000-square-foot facility. We were thinking about moving from downtown. And then COVID hit,” Simons, Enstrom’s president and CEO, said when a reporter popped in unexpectedly to talk about economic development earlier this month.

2 weeks ago | coloradosun.com | Tamara Chuang

The state’s $826.5 million plan to ensure every last household in Colorado has access to affordable broadband service must redo its grant program after the federal government changed the rules. The Colorado Broadband Office, which is overseeing the funding to build infrastructure so every unserved or underserved Coloradan has fast internet, found out Friday like the rest of the country that the original guidance to prioritize fiber-internet projects has been scrapped.