Tag: Bargaining
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King Soopers and union extend no-strike period for another week
King Soopers and the grocery workers union will continue negotiating for at least another week to avoid a strike. The Colorado grocery chain operated by Kroger and United Food and Commercial Workers Local 7 had a 100-day peace agreement to halt February’s strike and continuing bargaining for a new contract, with the period set to…
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King Soopers strike seems inevitable after union, management trade barbs
King Soopers officials and United Food and Commercial Workers Local 7 representatives hurled “unfair labor practices” accusations at each other Monday, pointing more and more to a strike starting Wednesday. In a news release, King Soopers said it “filed unfair labor practice charges against UFCW Local 7 for refusing to bargain in good faith.” Within…
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Q&A with Josette Jaramillo | Reframing the conversation to workplace issues
Josette Jaramillo was elected this fall to a second four-year term as president of the Colorado AFL-CIO, a federation of some 185 unions with 130,000 members in the state. A supervisor with the Pueblo County Department of Human Services’ Child Welfare division, Jaramillo is a longtime member of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal…