As votes to form a union rolled in from Boulder County employees Jan. 16, Brianna Barber was overcome with emotion. The 442-221 vote makes the new Boulder County Employees Union — representing more than 1,400 workers and affiliated with Communication Workers of America (CWA) — Colorado’s largest group of county workers to unionize since the 2022 passage of a state law that granted county employees collective bargaining rights and other worker protections. “The union belongs to everybody.”BCEU is among the most recent group of BoCo workers to unionize, but they’re hardly the first. “Unions are not magic wands, but it is up to our bargaining unit to determine how strong our unit will be,” Barber said. More than a dozen of the company’s Colorado stores have unionized, including five in Boulder County.