After five months of negotiations, during which some King supers union members voted to authorize a strike, a new contract was voted on and approved by representatives of 20,000 members of United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW) Local 7 union. Members voted to approve contracts with the state's larges grocery [...]
King Soopers announced March 25 it had reached a tentative agreement with the union representing most of its employees, averting Colorado’s first grocery strike in 23 years. The Denver-based chain, which operates 11 stores and employs nearly 2,000 workers in the Colorado Springs area, negotiated throughout the weekend with United [...]
After negotiating for 37 hours over the weekend, King Soopers and the union that represents the grocer’s Colorado workers reached a tentative agreement on a new contract Monday that could avert a strike. The United Food and Commerical Workers Local 7 took to its Facebook page at 8:15 a.m. Monday [...]
Company negotiators for King Soopers, City Market and their workers are hoping to return to the table to stave off a potential strike. UFCW Local 7 members authorized a strike last week with more than 92 percent voting to authorize a work stoppage. Both parties say they have sent letters [...]
Employees of Colorado King Soopers and City Market stores begin voting today on their first strike authorization since 1996. That means around 12,000 unionized butchers, cashiers and shelf-stockers might soon walk off the job. An authorization vote doesn’t mean a strike would start right away. The vote gives workers leverage [...]
Talks between United Food and Commercial Workers and King Soopers have broken down, but shoppers shouldn’t notice an interruption to service at stores in Colorado. The union said Monday that workers in the UFCW Local 7 are withdrawing a contract extension with all unionized King Soopers and City Market stores [...]