By Wayne Heilman Source: The Gazette Contract talks between King Soopers and United Food and Commercial Workers union Local 7 heated up Wednesday after the labor group sued in federal court, alleging the grocery chain violated its contract by using cleaning contractors to stock shelves. The lawsuit came as the [...]
Despite being a nascent and still federally illegal operation, most states deemed cannabis companies and ancillary services as essential businesses when COVID-19 hit the U.S. Since that time, consumer demand has sustained – if not grown – and patients have been able to continue getting their medicine. Now, the legal [...]
Grocery workers at Safeway and Albertsons stores across the state have new protections and support after negotiations between labor unions and the company. Among them: an effort to to work with the state and federal government to treat them as first responders and set up a child care fund for [...]