Labor history came alive in downtown Denver earlier this month when Robert
Lindgren, Political and Organizing Director of the Colorado AFL-CIO — and longtime Labor Heritage Foundation supporter — led a Colorado Labor History walking tour as part of the 19th Annual American Bar Association Labor and Employment Law Conference.
The group visited the site of the historic 1920 Denver street car strike. “We discussed the past and current organizing efforts of the IATSE Local 7 at their union hall in the heart of the Denver theater district,” Lindgren told LHF. IATSE not only provides sound at many of Colorado's historic venues like Red Rocks Amphitheater, workers are currently negotiating contacts with Casa Bonita, a unique cultural institution in Colorado. The tour ended at the historic Denver Press Club, the oldest continually operating press club in the country and an ardent supporter of local journalism.
photo: outside IATSE Local 7 in Denver's Theater District.
NOTE: LHF connected conference organizers with Robert Lindgren. If your organization would like to arrange a similar labor history tour in your city or town, email info@laborheritage.org — we’ll do our best to make it happen!