November 2025 Election Endorsements

The Denver Area Labor Federation (DALF) represents over 80,000 working Coloradans, through over 114 affiliated unions. Our membership is diverse and includes everyone from teachers, firefighters, and home care workers to electricians and aerospace workers. We come together as the Denver Area Labor Federation because we believe in one simple idea: when working people stand together, we can create positive changes for everyone.

DALF votes to endorse candidates based on how they will impact not only our unions, but all working people in the Denver Area. We carefully consider how each candidate will help us fight for a more equal and secure economy where working people can build power, ensure economic justice for themselves and their families, and combat the influence of corporations and wealthy elites.

Voting is our chance as working people to support those who support us. Who you vote for is your personal decision, but we hope that you will take DALF’s endorsements into consideration as you fill out your ballot.

AS OF September 1st, 2025, THE DENVER AREA LABOR FEDERATION HAS ENDORSED THE FOLLOWING CANDIDATES:

ARVADA

City Council District 1: Randy Moorman

City Council At-Large: Michael Griffith

AURORA

City Council Ward I: Gianina Horton

City Council Ward II: Amy Wiles

City Council At-Large: Alli Jackson

City Council At-Large: Rob Andrews

AURORA SCHOOL BOARD (28J)

At-Large: Dr. Anne Keke

At-Large: Gayla Charrier

At-Large: Kristin Mallory

At-Large: Tramaine Duncan

CENTENNIAL

Mayor: Christine Sweetland

City Council District 1: Cindy Sandhu

City Council District 2: Ashish Vaidya

City Council District 4: Durrell Middleton

CHERRY CREEK SCHOOL BOARD

District E: Mike Hamrick

COMMERCE CITY

City Council At-Large: Jennifer Allen-Thomas

DENVER SCHOOL BOARD

District 3: Dr. DJ Torres

District 4: Monica Hunter

At-Large: Amy Klein Molk

DOUGLAS COUNTY SCHOOL BOARD

District B: Kyrzia Parker

District D: Tony Ryan

District E: Clark Callahan

District G: Kelly Denzler

THORNTON

City Council Ward 1: Cherish Salazar

City Council Ward 2: John Alge

WESTMINSTER

Mayor: Claire Carmelia

City Council At-Large: Obi Ezeadi

WHEAT RIDGE

City Council District III: Pat Quinn

November 2025 Election Endorsements

One Year Later, Janus Decision Still Hasn’t Hurt Unions

10 Jul, 2019

A year after a landmark U.S. Supreme Court ruling that threatened to cripple public sector unions, they seem to be holding their own. Government employees, it turns out, see value in belonging to unions. Membership in Illinois government unions actually has increased a year after the June 27, 2018

November 2025 Election Endorsements

Two Cheers for a Lackluster Economy

10 Jul, 2019

Raise a glass to the longest economic expansion in modern American history. A full decade has passed since the end of the last recession, in June 2009, and the economy continues to grow. As of Monday, the current expansion surpassed the previous record for uninterrupted growth, set between 1991 and

November 2025 Election Endorsements

The Strike that Brought Teachers Unions Back from the Dead

10 Jul, 2019

On the morning of September 10, 2012, the bells rang to open Chicago’s public schools, but there were no teachers in the classrooms. The night before, negotiations with Chicago’s reform-minded mayor, Rahm Emanuel, had gone south, and the new activist leaders of the city’s 25,000-member teachers

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Whether It’s the New NAFTA or the Old NAFTA, It Serves the 1%

20 Jun, 2019

Mick Mulvaney, a millionaire who is President Trump’s acting chief of staff and director of the Office of Management and Budget, awarded himself another job last week: spokesman for labor. Referring to the proposed new NAFTA, he told the Wall Street Journal, “We know that labor supports it.” That

November 2025 Election Endorsements

Ohio Needs a NAFTA Deal that Works for All of Us. We’re Not There Yet

20 Jun, 2019

As leaders of the AFL-CIO representing working people here in Ohio and across the country, we’ve seen firsthand the damage from bad trade agreements, and no deal has done more harm to working people than the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). It’s been 25 years since NAFTA went into force

November 2025 Election Endorsements

A NAFTA That Works for Workers

20 Jun, 2019

The North American Free Trade Agreement has been a disaster for working Pennsylvanians. But, the way it came about was no accident. Those in power decided that greed, not justice or fairness, would be the rule of our economy. Corporations were handed free rein to suppress the rights of workers in

November 2025 Election Endorsements

AFSCME Member Gets Assistance From Union Plus Disability Grant

11 Jun, 2019

When AFSCME member Deborah Van Horn was unable to work due to health issues, she turned to Union Plus for financial help. As a Union Plus Credit Cardholder, she was eligible to apply for the Union Plus Disability Grant.

November 2025 Election Endorsements

How LGBTQ Union Activists Transformed the Labor Movement

10 Jun, 2019

As Pride Month is recognized around the world this year, the rainbow-hued celebration will be colored by hope, fear for the future, and reverence for the queer liberation movement’s radical past. This year has already seen the murders of at least nine Black trans women in a slow-moving genocide that

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Trump’s North American Trade Deal Must do More to Protect U.S. Jobs

10 Jun, 2019

Mexico didn’t foist NAFTA on the United States, despite President Donald Trump’s constant claims that the U.S. loses “so much money” on the deal. We did it to ourselves, and we did it deliberately. Corporations wanted to create in Mexico a low-wage haven where they could shift production, expecting

November 2025 Election Endorsements

Trump’s War on Worker Rights

10 Jun, 2019

President Trump ran for office as a champion of American workers and a friend of labor unions, but his administration has systematically favored employers at the expense of workers. In recent months, the administration has moved to tighten qualifications for who must be paid the minimum wage and who

November 2025 Election Endorsements

Librarian Praises Fast Access to Disaster Relief Grant with the Union Plus Credit Card

30 May, 2019

LaVerne Washington, executive board member and steward of American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME) Local 101 in San Jose, California is on her way to retiring credit card debt free. Washington has been an AFSCME member for 18 years. As she started planning for retirement

November 2025 Election Endorsements

Video Game Developers Power Up a High-Stakes Unionizing Campaign

24 May, 2019

It was 1 a.m. and RJ Reyes was driving down a Los Angeles freeway when he realized he’d had enough. The sleep-deprived video game developer felt his eyes grow heavy. And his car veered suddenly. There was no collision but the scare left him with a realization: His job at a small indie gaming studio