By Jack Lowenstein | CBS Colorado
King Soopers/City Market filed a federal lawsuit in Colorado against United Food and Commercial Workers Local Union No. 7 (UFCW Local 7) on Friday. This comes amid the beginning of the two-week worker strike across the state.
According to the lawsuit, this action is being taken due to damages King Soopers says it’s suffering, “as a result of [the] Defendant’s continuing pattern of threatening, coercive, and restraining actions, taken for unlawful purposes in violation of the National Labor Relations Act and actionable in federal court under Section 303(a) of the Labor Management Relations Act.”
In response to the new lawsuit the workers union released a statement that said in part, “UFCW Local 7 learned that earlier this afternoon King Soopers filed a baseless lawsuit against the Union. The Union is confident it will successfully defend against the suit, and that King Soopers’ claims will not survive initial scrutiny by a court.”