Colorado Bills Take Aim at Corporate Algorithms We’re excited to share two pieces of good news from the state legislature. Last week, two bills Towards Justice has been supporting advanced through key votes in the Colorado legislature. The first bill, HB26-1210, would ban surveillance price and wage setting in Colorado. This protection would ensure that … Continued
Accountability Is Working The past three weeks have been extraordinary here at Towards Justice. Together with our clients and co-counsel, we won three major cases that protect workers, incarcerated people, and consumers across Colorado and nationwide. These victories, which span the United States Supreme Court, the Colorado Court of Appeals, and a Denver district court, … Continued
Algorithmic control and manipulation of working people is a dire threat to our marketplace that threatens to further entrench economic inequality and undermine our core economic freedoms. Over the past several weeks, Towards Justice has been at the forefront of the effort to fight back. We are excited to share our latest video in our … Continued
Scroll down to see the Spanish version. Baja para ver la versión en español. In late February, 9NEWS broke a major story that UCHealth – one of the state’s largest healthcare providers – is suing thousands of patients every year while hiding behind third-party debt collectors, seemingly to avoid public scrutiny. Many working families, including … Continued
Scroll down to see the Spanish version. Baja para ver la versión en español. Just before the New Year, we proudly stood in with our clients and other workers fighting back against Amazon for its efforts to use forced arbitration to delay justice for thousands of delivery drivers across Colorado whom, we allege, Amazon forces … Continued
Baja para ver la versión en español. Intro It’s been a busy year here at Towards Justice. We’ve been supporting workers across the country to challenge stay-or-pay contracts, workplace surveillance and automated management of workers, and the scourge of forced labor. Before we head into the new year, we wanted to highlight some of our … Continued
Last month, we filed a class action suit alleging that the St. Regis Hotel in Aspen, CO had manipulated the J-1 intern visa program to exploit immigrant workers and lock them into low-wage work with poor working conditions. If you aren’t caught up with this story, the J-1 visa internship program is supposed to be … Continued
We have new developments for you in Towards Justice’s continued fight to help workers across the country take on predatory stay-or-pay contracts — coercive contract terms that corporations exploit to keep workers trapped in their jobs and shift the costs of doing business onto workers. Following cases we’ve filed on behalf of PetsMart workers, immigrant … Continued
Happy Labor Day from all of us here at Towards Justice. Today we celebrate our accomplishments alongside workers, while acknowledging workers’ ongoing fight to build power and level the playing field. We face persistent structural inequities that disproportionately disadvantage people of color, threaten our planet, and strip us of our most fundamental rights. But Labor … Continued
This month, we’re very excited to introduce a Spanish translation of our newsletter for the first time! Scroll down to see the Spanish version. We’ll be including translations in our newsletters going forward. Enjoy! ¡Este mes, estamos muy emocionados de presentar una versión en español de nuestro boletín mensual por primera vez! Baja para ver la versión en … Continued
Top News We’ve been busy supporting workers across the country to challenge stay-or-pay contracts that keep workers trapped in their jobs, workplace surveillance and automated management of workers, and the scourge of forced labor. Last month, we brought a new lawsuit against tech bootcamp Smoothstack for locking our client into illegal TRAPs. A type of … Continued
We sued Amazon (again!). Last month, we filed a class-action lawsuit against Amazon for its failure to provide reasonable access to the bathroom, violating Colorado’s labor laws and creating an illegal disparate impact on people with typically female anatomy. Click here to view the entire newsletter. In a complaint filed in Colorado, three Amazon delivery drivers … Continued