DENVER (KDVR) -- After failed union negotiations with King Soopers, around 10,000 grocery store employees across the Denver metro are planning to strike on Thursday morning.
A letter from UFCW Local 7, a Colorado grocery store union, announced that 77 stores are set to strike on Thursday at 5 a.m. for two weeks.
The union said this includes about 10,000 employees from all unionized King Soopers stores throughout Adams, Arapahoe, Broomfield, Denver, Douglas, and Jefferson counties as well as King Soopers stores in the cities of Boulder and Louisville.
King Soopers union members to vote on strike after negotiations failed"Over the past week, union members from across Colorado resoundingly told King Soopers and City Market that they were fed up with the Company's unfair labor practices and authorized an Unfair Labor Practice Strike," the letter said.
According to the letter, there will be a picket line at the front of the store, and once the strike begins, employees will walk out and get behind the picket line. The union claims that King Soopers has temporarily hired employees and flown them out to work during this time.
The union said this is the start of many pending strikes across Colorado, as some stores won't go on strike on Thursday, but stores in areas like Colorado Springs and Pueblo could go on strike within the next few days. Meanwhile, other King Soopers and City Market workers in Fort Collins, Greeley, Longmont and Loveland are preparing strike votes.
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