Unionized King Soopers workers in Broomfield and Boulder counties joined their peers in the Denver metro area to vote in favor of a strike authorization this week as the Kroger Co.-owned (NYSE: KR) grocery-store chain and the United Food and Commercial Workers Local 7 have failed to agree on terms for a new labor contract.

King Soopers employees across metro Denver authorized a strike on January 30. Workers in Colorado Springs and Pueblo will consider doing the same this weekend.

In a phone interview with The Denver Gazette, King Soopers and City Market President Joe Kelley said he is disappointed by the strike vote and thought the union’s decision is premature. Kelley has run Kroger’s Colorado stores since 2021. He said nobody won in the 2022 strike that lasted nine days, and no one will win in the next one, either.

Some union employees at King Soopers have voted almost unanimously to authorize a strike. The grocery chain in Colorado is owned by parent company Kroger.

The United Food and Commercial Workers Local 7 said union members in metro Denver and Boulder, Colorado, have voted overwhelmingly to authorize a strike against King Soopers. The timing and locations of strikes will be announced publicly before any labor action starts,

The union workers of Kroger-owned King Soopers grocery stores in the metro Denver, Boulder, Parker and Broomfield bargaining units voted to authorize an unfair labor practice strike, the union announced Thursday night.

Union workers of King Soopers grocery stores in Colorado Springs have voted to authorize an Unfair Labor Practice strike. According to a press release from UFCW Local 7, the

Grocery workers in the metro Denver area wrapped up voting Thursday night and voted to strike against King Soopers after negotiations came to a standstill between union leaders and the