In response to the mass shooting that targeted immigrants in El Paso, Texas this weekend, Leng Leng Chancey, 9to5 Executive Director, issued the statement below. Leng Leng is shown in this photo at an immmigrant rights march in Atlanta. The shots fired on immigrant families...
In May 2019, the Colorado State Legislature passed HB 19-1309, the Mobile Home Oversight Act. This law strengthens the already existing Mobile Home Act and creates new standards for Mobile Home residents and Mobile Home Park landowners. En mayo de 2019, la Legislatura del Estado de...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE July 30, 2019 Contact: 9to5Colorado@9to5.org 9to5 supports members pursuit of lawsuit over excessive, punitive rental fees Aurora - Residents, with support from 9to5 Colorado and attorney Jason Legg and Steven Woodrow, have filed a lawsuit in Arapahoe County District Court regarding excessive fees charged to residents...
Check out this Op Ed by 9to5 Executive Director Leng Leng Chancey on how and why our pay equity conversations and policies need to focus on women of color and all people facing workplace disparities. "Pay equity is a real and persistent problem for all women,...
9to5 is the movement that inspired the hit movie and ever-popular anthem of the same name. For all of us who have hummed along, sung in the shower, or tapped our nails to Dolly Parton's chart-topper, here is one explanation of it's on-going popularity,...
9to5 was honored to be named as 'Coolest Charity in the World' on July 10th, for our decades of work on Equal Pay - in recognition of the new level of awareness brought to this issue by the US Women's Soccer National Team. ...
I’ll always remember the hat pin my grandmother gave me when I went away to college. It was meant to protect me from "boys who got too fresh". The signals I got from my earliest years were about my powerlessness, and the assumptions about what...
We are happy to share that Judith Marquez, Co-Director of 9to5 Colorado has been named to sit on the FAMLI Task Force. The task force was commissioned by the passage of SB 19-188, the FAMLI Implementation Act. Judith, along with 15 other appointees (13 voting,...
9to5 Colorado member Zoey Palmer is active in our campaign to pass the FAMLI Act - paid family and medical leave insurance legislation - in Colorado. This bill, as introduced in March 2019, would define family members for whom an employee could take paid leave...
The Mobile Home Organizing Institute was founded by 9to5 Colorado after 4 years working with mobile home residents all over the state. Colorado is experiencing an affordable housing crisis, leaving mobile homes as one of only a few accessible housing options. Increasing populations across Colorado...