By Maddie Rhodes | KDVR-TV Fox 31 News
After months of attempted negotiations between King Soopers and its employees, the union announced that 77 Denver metro and Front Range stores, about 10,000 union employees, will go on strike starting Thursday.
Since October, King Soopers and union employees have worked on negotiations and met over 10 times but never reached a deal. After months of unresolved conflict, their contract extension expired in January, removing the no-strike clause. Soon after, several stores in the Denver metro and Front Range voted to strike.
“For months the employer failed to respond in any way to the union’s requests for information on data that relates to pricing and staffing. Some information was provided starting in January, but it is still inadequate,” the United Food & Commercial Workers Union Local 7 said.
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