Strike

The meatpacking giant in Greeley says some employees are not joining the picket line and coming to work instead, for “stability” and to “support their families." Listen to "Morning Edition" host Michael Lyle, Jr. discuss this story with Colorado Sun reporter Tracy Ross and then read the entire article at the link below.

Workers at JBS USA’s meatpacking plant took to the picket line Monday, with union employees braving temperatures in the teens in the first such strike at a U.S. meatpacking plant in decades.

A strike began today at various King Soopers stores around the Front Range. The strike includes thousands of workers, but King Soopers plans to keep locations open.

Workers at Denver area King Soopers have voted to authorize a strike. The grocery chain says stores will remain open.

Ongoing voting will determine if thousands of grocery store employees will authorize a strike in Colorado.

If workers vote to approve a strike, the walkout will involve more stores and employees than the nine-day strike in 2022. Listen to "Morning Edition" host Michael Lyle, Jr. discuss this story with Colorado Sun reporter Tamara Chuang and then read The Colorado Sun story at the link below.

After a nationwide strike among unionized Kaiser Permanente workers in early October, the union and the health care company have announced a tentative agreement.

The King Soopers strike is emblematic of a broader labor movement sweeping the country, and parts of the Mountain West, as workers walk out for better pay and benefits or unionize to harness their collective power.

Grocery store workers in the Denver area went on strike Wednesday after their union rejected the latest contract offer from a chain of stores owned by Kroger Co., the nation’s largest traditional grocery store chain.

Janitor Luis Gonzalez smiled a little on Friday when asked how it felt to go on strike. “It feels great,” he said, as his fellow janitors at Denver International Airport rallied around him.