From every shift to every service — we make Colorado run
We are the dispatchers who make sure help is there when we need it and the firefighters protecting our communities and wildlands. We are the engineers, snow plow drivers, and maintenance crews keeping our roads and bridges safe.
We make critical services like Medicaid and unemployment insurance accessible. We support students and faculty and maintain and clean our community colleges and universities. We provide care for our veterans and youth and adults with disabilities. We keep our prisons secure and communities safe. We keep our rivers and air clean, protect our public lands, and boost tourism and the economy.
I love nursing and choose to work in a state hospital because it allows me to care for some of Colorado’s most vulnerable and underserved people, something private hospitals don’t always do, especially when patients are uninsured. Knowing my union has my back and is fighting for better staffing, pay, and working conditions makes it easier to stay in the work I am passionate about instead of moving to the private sector.
We inspect trucks to keep our highways safe, checking brakes, hazardous materials, and chains, for example. We lose too many officers to higher paying jobs, especially where housing is priciest. That’s where our union comes in: fighting for the wages and benefits we need to keep them on the job.
State workers are passionate about keeping Colorado beautiful, strong, and safe. We take pride in the services we provide. And we know the key to our success is making state jobs good jobs so we can hire and keep the people we need.
I work hard keeping our campus clean for our students and faculty. Sometimes this work can feel invisible, and taken for granted. That’s where our union comes in. I’m a steward because I know our union wins us the respect we deserve for the work we do, and I love making that possible for my co-workers.
I wish more people understood our role in public safety, and how staffing affects that. Case managers and teachers–the people who provide programming that drives success after release–can't do their jobs because they’re covering for correctional officers. That means inmates grow frustrated and more violent inside, and are less likely to succeed outside, compromising our safety and public safety. Our union gives us a fighting chance at fixing Corrections.
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