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Safeway, King Soopers Submit Final Offer To UFCW Number 7

AP | Posted 11.17.2009 | Denver


DENVER — After months of talks, Safeway and King Soopers have given a union representing Colorado grocery workers their last, best, final contra...

Safeway, King Soopers To Submit "Last, Best And Final" Contract On Monday

The Colorado Springs Gazette | Wayne Heilman | Posted 11.16.2009 | Denver


Unionized grocery workers across Colorado expect to vote next week on a "last, best and final" contract offered by King Soopers and Safeway. The un...

United Food And Commercial Workers, Local 7, Can't Get Approval For Strike From National Leadership

The Denver Post | Steve Raabe | Posted 11.10.2009 | Denver


Friction between Colorado grocery-worker union officials and their national leadership could once again derail or delay a strike during the crucial ho...

Colorado Grocery Workers Appear Ready To Strike

Posted 10.22.2009 | Denver


The Colorado Springs Gazette reported Wednesday that the Colorado grocery workers took one step closer to striking this week when they walked out on n...

Safeway Submits "Final Offer" To Unions, Strikes May Ensue

Denver Daily News | Peter Marcus | Posted 11.11.2009 | Denver


Safeway, Inc., presented Colorado grocery workers on Wednesday with a final five-year contract offer. But the union representing workers says it is "...

Labor-Environmental Coalition Targets Wal-Mart

The Washington Post | Ylan Q. Mui | Posted 10.17.2009 | Home


Labor groups renewed their campaign against Wal-Mart on Tuesday, launching a coalition that calls for improvements in the company's wages, health care...

Victory at Smithfields: An Independence Day Symbol

Jonathan Tasini | Posted 08.03.2009 | Business


Jonathan Tasini

When I think about what these workers went through -- the struggle, the fight, the commitment that held them together over so many dark days -- this is the America that inspires me.

Wal-Mart's Failure to Protect Its Workers: An Unfortunate Symbol

David Nassar | Posted 01.03.2009 | Politics


David Nassar

When ten employees of the Wal-Mart meat department in a TX store elected UFCW as their union, Wal-Mart immediately scrapped their entire network of in-store butcher departments nationwide.