How this year’s legislative session let down workers

On today’s Morning Magazine, Kjersten Forseth and Robert Lindgren of KGNU’s Labor Exchange discuss how labor policy fared during Colorado’s recently ended legislative session.

Kjersten Forseth is a lobbyist with the Colorado chapter of the American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO), the largest federation of unions in the country.

Earlier this week, Forseth joined host Robert Lindgren on KGNU’s The Labor Exchange to give a recap of how labor policy fared in this year’s legislative session at the Colorado statehouse. This is an excerpt of that conversation.

Their full conversation was a roundup of labor policy that went through the statehouse this year, including Polis’s veto of the Firefighter Cancer Bill, the pricing surveillance bill, the Worker Protection Act, and the farm worker overtime bill.

This story aired on the Morning Magazine, KGNU’s weekday morning show featuring in-depth discussions on local news issues. Click here to listen to other episodes of the Morning Magazine.