Source: 9 News Safeway workers are ending their strike Saturday, after more than three weeks of picketing at 46 stores across Colorado. UFCW 7 posted on Facebook that they reached a "fully recommended tentative agreement" with the company. As part of that agreement, strikes will be lifted starting Saturday. The [...]
By Katie Perkins Source: Denver7.com The union representing Safeway workers is headed back to the bargaining table Friday, UFCW Local 7 president Kim Cordova said, as more stores join the strike. Two new Safeway stores — one in Lakewood and one in Littleton — were the latest to picket Friday [...]
By Brianna Leonard Source: KKTV.com Employees will strike at several Safeway locations on Sunday, according to UFCW Local 7. The grocery store strikes will be limited to just four cities: Estes Park, Colorado Fountain, Colorado Pueblo, Pueblo Denver, Colorado (distribution center) The union said limited strikes will allow time for [...]
By Bernadette Berdychowski Source: Denver Gazette Two of Colorado’s largest grocers are at risk of facing a workers' strike. The union representing Colorado grocery workers has not reached an agreement with either Kroger’s King Soopers and City Market leadership or Albertsons’ Safeway for new employee contracts. The United Food and [...]
By Sam Silverstein Source: Grocery Dive Kroger and Albertsons are facing a class-action lawsuit alleging that unionized workers for the grocers suffered financial harm because Albertsons agreed not to hire workers from Kroger’s King Soopers banner during a 10-day strike against the Colorado chain in 2022. The alleged agreement between [...]
By Judith Kohler Source: Denver Post A merger of Kroger and Albertsons would cost Colorado consumers as much as $500 million a year because of a lack of competition, a lawyer from the Colorado Attorney General’s office argued Monday at the start of the state’s trial seeking to block the [...]
By Bernadette Berdychowski Source: Colorado Springs Gazette The third trial over the proposed $25 billion merger of Kroger and Albertsons began Monday in Colorado, with the state seeking to portray the deal as enabling the grocers to raise prices and the grocers countering that it would do the opposite. The [...]
By Bill Wilson Source: Supermarket News A Trader Joe’s in Greenwood Village, Colo., is facing a fine of over $200,000 from the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) for violating worker safety regulations, and it’s not the first time the retailer has been cited over similar issues. During a December [...]
By Jeff Anastasio Source: ABC 7 Denver Kroger’s $20 billion attempt to merge with Albertsons Companies Inc., hit a snag in Colorado on Wednesday as Attorney General Phil Weiser announced a lawsuit to block the supermarket chains from combining. Weiser said the merger of the parent companies of King Soopers/City [...]
By Tommy Wood Source: Daily Camera Workers at the Trader Joe’s grocery store at 1906 28th St. are attempting to unionize after United Food and Commercial Workers Local 7 filed a petition for a union election on their behalf Tuesday. That makes the Boulder store the third Trader Joe’s in [...]