Colorado’s 2025 legislative session exposed some sharp fault lines within the Democratic Party when it comes to labor issues.
Though Democrats hold solid majorities in both the state Senate and the House of Representatives, measures backed by progressive lawmakers to protect workers from extreme heat and to prohibit the useof surveillance-based algorithms to set wages were among the bills that died in the face of opposition from moderates.
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Democratic majorities in the Legislature approved SB-5, dubbed the Worker Protection Act. But Polis said earlier this year that he would only sign the bill if it met the approval of business groups like the Colorado Chamber of Commerce. When talks between the two sides stalled, lawmakers passed SB-5 anyway.
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