By Nicole Heins Source: KKTV Denver After three months of negotiations, UFCW Local 7 has reportedly reached a tentative three year agreement with King Soopers. This agreement will ensure workers are respected and protected in the workplace, and compensated with wages they deserve as Essential Workers. This comes weeks after [...]
By Ellie Sullum Source: 303 Magazine Today at 5 a.m., more than 8,000 King Soopers union workers went on strike across nearly 80 stores in the Denver Metro Area. The strike comes after months of unsuccessful negotiations between United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW) Local 7 and Kroger-owned King Soopers. [...]
By Dennis Huspeni Source: Denver Gazette King Soopers officials and United Food and Commercial Workers Local 7 representatives hurled “unfair labor practices” accusations at each other Monday, pointing more and more to a strike starting Wednesday. In a news release, King Soopers said it “filed unfair labor practice charges against [...]
By Amanda Horvath Source: Rocky Mountain PBS Going to a King Soopers in the coming days may mean seeing picketers. The union that represents about 17,000 grocery workers from Kroger/King Soopers in Colorado and Wyoming is calling for a strike. The news comes just a couple days after union members [...]
By Wilson Beese Source: NBC 9 News Denver Some King Soopers employees in Colorado preauthorized going on strike amid contract negations after nearly unanimous votes on Sunday, according to the United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW) Local 7 labor union. UFCW Local 7 said the following groups of employees voted [...]
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 [...]