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.
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Colorado ping.
Strikes always accompany an improving economy.
Go find a better job.
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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.
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.
I hope this does not affect my Arizona Safeway
there are other grocers but I prefer Safeway
Exactly why Unions are DAMGEROUS!
Testing to see how much support there is for the strike?
Isnt that how unions operate?
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