Referred Question 2U would give Denver employees the right to unionize.
City of Denver employees who aren’t part of a union could gain the right to organize and bargain collectively, and firefighters, who are already unionized, could switch to binding arbitration when contract negotiations stall under two referred questions before Denver voters on Tuesday.
The two labor-focused questions haven’t received the attention of other items on Denver’s ballot, but they take up close to half of the pages in theReferred Question 2U would give the bulk of the city’s 15,500 workers not within a union the right to organize and bargain collectively. The measure excludes the 3,250 city police officers, sheriff’s deputies and firefighters who already have bargaining rights and supervisory and “confidential” employees.
That would leave about 8,500 workers who could gain collective bargaining rights if voters approve 2U. The estimated cost of setting up the collective bargaining system is $3 million with ongoing annual costs starting at $2.3 million in fiscal 2026. Referred Question 2V, the other labor measures, seeks to install binding arbitration, or a dispute resolution process run by a neutral third party when the two sides can’t agree. It would replace the current approach called advisory fact-finding that can trigger a special election and align firefighters with the approach used by the unions representing police and sheriff’s deputies.
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