Colorado Workers for Innovative and New Solutions (WINS) is a union representing more than 27,000 state employees. We work to improve quality of services, safety, pay and benefits, working conditions, conflict resolution, staff attrition and more to ensure an effective workforce to serve all Coloradans.
From snowplow drivers, to nurses, to firefighters, state employees perform critical jobs that keep Coloradans safe and healthy.
In 2024, we returned to the bargaining table to win bigger and better than ever!
LEARN MORENothing we’ve won has come without a lot of hard work, and in 2024, our union did a lot of hard work! Here’s how that paid off and is making state workers’ lives better, both at work, and at home.
Read what COWINS members have been up to in November!
“When you hire someone and the state spends money to train that person and then they don’t stay or they find a better opportunity elsewhere, that costs money to constantly rehire and train people,” said Union Steward for CDOC, Danielle Tye. “People want to be able to keep a career in the long-term.”
