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Colorado workers at 4 Safeway stores and a Denver distribution center go on strike
Colorado Sun ^ | 6-15-2025 | Tamara Chuang

Posted on 06/16/2025 7:31:54 PM PDT by Ultra Sonic 007

Pueblo walked off the job Sunday morning after a temporary contract extension ended with no agreement. Employees at the Safeway distribution center in Denver also joined the strike.

Understaffed stores, changes to health benefits and low wage increases are top issues for the union, as has been the case since the first contracts began expiring in January. The union also accuses managers from Albertsons-owned Safeway and its rivals at Kroger-owned King Soopers of unfairly teaming up to negotiate.

That’s threatening to take benefits away from its Safeway members, said Kim Cordova, president of United Food and Commercial Workers International Union Local 7, which represents workers at both grocery chains.

“This is our big problem. Even though they’re competitors and they’re separate, we do not agree to what’s called multi-employer bargaining,” Cordova said, while on site at one of the Pueblo stores to support picketing workers. “They’re trying to force that and in our opinion, this is collusion.”

On Friday, Safeway officials said in a statement that it was “committed to productive discussions.” Reached Sunday, the company said it had no new comment except that all stores remain open.

(Excerpt) Read more at coloradosun.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: Colorado
KEYWORDS: albertsons; californialite; colorado; contracts; safeway; unions
How lovely.
1 posted on 06/16/2025 7:31:54 PM PDT by Ultra Sonic 007
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To: george76

Colorado ping.


2 posted on 06/16/2025 7:32:15 PM PDT by Ultra Sonic 007 (There is nothing new under the sun.)
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To: Ultra Sonic 007

Strikes always accompany an improving economy.


3 posted on 06/16/2025 7:35:15 PM PDT by Steely Tom ([Voter Fraud] == [Civil War])
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To: Ultra Sonic 007

Go find a better job.


4 posted on 06/16/2025 7:40:35 PM PDT by From The Deer Stand (Mp)
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To: Ultra Sonic 007; MileHi; dynachrome; backspace; Balata; bboop; Ben Dover; Benito Cereno; BigEdLB; ..

Colorado Ping ( Let me know if you wish to be added or removed from the list.)


5 posted on 06/16/2025 8:25:28 PM PDT by george76 (Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
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To: Ultra Sonic 007
Colorado workers at 4 Safeway stores and a Denver distribution center go on strike

Close the stores and the facility, then bulldoze them by the end of the week.   This is not the time to suffer this kind of foolishness.

6 posted on 06/16/2025 9:27:17 PM PDT by higgmeister (In the Shadow of The Big Chicken! )
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To: Ultra Sonic 007

Shut down all the stores. Inform ICE of suspected illegals using fake IDs. Wait a week during the strike. Open the stores with American employees.

Pretty simple.


7 posted on 06/16/2025 11:56:47 PM PDT by VanShuyten ("...that all the donkeys were dead. I know nothing as to the fate of the less valuable anima)
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To: Ultra Sonic 007

I hope this does not affect my Arizona Safeway

there are other grocers but I prefer Safeway


8 posted on 06/17/2025 3:35:46 AM PDT by SisterK (to do justly, to love mercy and to walk humbly)
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To: Ultra Sonic 007

Exactly why Unions are DAMGEROUS!


9 posted on 06/17/2025 3:43:13 AM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion.....the HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience..H)
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To: Ultra Sonic 007; george76

Testing to see how much support there is for the strike?


10 posted on 06/17/2025 4:53:59 AM PDT by dynachrome (Auslander Raus!)
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To: Ultra Sonic 007
The union also accuses managers from Albertsons-owned Safeway and its rivals at Kroger-owned King Soopers of unfairly teaming up to negotiate.

Isnt that how unions operate?

11 posted on 06/17/2025 4:57:51 AM PDT by johniegrad
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