Tag: Labor Disputes
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Aurora’s Metco Landscape to lay off hundreds of workers
Aurora-based Metco Landscape is apparently going out of business, and on Monday filed a notice with the Colorado Secretary of State’s Office that it will lay off hundreds of workers in its Denver metro area and Colorado Springs offices. The California investment firm that owns the 35-year Denver area landscaping company said Tuesday it’s in…
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King Soopers strike: Leaders from both sides reflect
Both sides of the recent grocery strike in metro Denver between United Food and Commercial Workers Local 7 and Kroger Co. claimed victory, but differed wildly on how and why the final settlement was reached. Union President Kim Cordova and King Soopers/City Market President Joe Kelley talked (separately) with The Denver Gazette about the sometimes…
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Union ratifies King Soopers’ contract; strike officially ends
Members of metro Denver area United Food and Commercial Workers Local 7 voted Monday to approve a new three-year contract offered by Kroger Co., who owns all King Soopers and City Market stores in Colorado, according to a late Monday news release. The agreement includes wage hikes of up to $5 per hour for some…
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Kings Soopers strike ends with tentative deal
Striking King Soopers and City Market workers appeared to return to work Friday after Kroger Co. and United Food and Commercial Workers Local 7 officials announced a tentative early-morning agreement. Picketers were gone from at least three metro Denver area stores Friday visited by Denver Gazette journalists. The tentative pact ends the-almost 10-day strike that…
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King Soopers strike: A closer look at Denver judge’s temporary restraining order on picketers
A judge’s approval of King Soopers request for a temporary restraining order against picketers attempts to prevent potential violence while respecting union members’ right to strike peacefully. Denver District Judge Marie Moses’ written order, issued Wednesday, limits the number of picketers to “10 or fewer … on the premises and perimeter of each one of…
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King Soopers granted temporary restraining order against picketers
Kroger on Tuesday said a judge has granted its request for a temporary restraining order against striking King Soopers workers after the company claimed that picketers were harassing store customers and workers who crossed the picket line. Kroger, the parent company of Colorado’s King Soopers and City Market stores, filed the request in Denver District…
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CU economics professor on King Soopers strike: Don’t believe everything you hear
Take what both sides of United Food and Commercial Workers Local 7’s strike against Kroger Co. are saying publicly with a grain of salt, University of Colorado-Boulder economics professor Jeffery Zax suggests. Zax has studied and taught labor and economics at CU since 1990. Below is a question and answer session, which has been edited…
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Denver King Soopers/City Market workers go on strike
King Soopers workers hit the picket lines early Wednesday in freezing temperatures with signs and hopes their efforts could prompt a change. The strike began at 5 a.m. after union representatives for United Food and Commercial Workers Local 7 rejected King Soopers/City Market’s “last, best and final offer” late Tuesday. Richard May has worked at King Soopers…
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Q&A: The King Soopers strike
Members of United Food and Commercial Workers Local 7 voted overwhelmingly to strike in advance of the union’s contract with The Kroger Co. expiring Jan. 8. Kroger owns King Soopers and City Market stores. It operates 143 grocery stores, 97 convenience stores, nine jewelry stores and eight manufacturing and distribution facilities that employ more than…
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King Soopers strike imminent after ‘last, best and final offer’
With United Food and Commercial Workers Local 7 union representatives rejecting King Soopers/City Market’s “last, best and final offer” Tuesday, it looks as though picket lines in metro Denver stores will materialize at 5 a.m. Wednesday. More than 8,700 workers at 78 Denver metro area stores plan to walk out Wednesday morning. Colorado Springs stores…