Several months talks between the union and the company and the expiry of their contract last month, 77 King Super Store workers began a strike on Thursday in the Denver Metro area on Thursday.
The Union said in a news release on Monday that members of the UFCW Local 7 voted in favor of approval of a strike representing 10,000 workers in the affected stores. The union has alleged that King Suppor is using “union busting tactics” by bringing temporary workers to union members to strike.
In January 31 News released by King SuperzersThe company said it would hire temporary workers during work, which the Union plans to keep for two weeks.
Chris Lucy, a part of a service manager and a negotiating committee, told USA Today that the strike was revolving around the company’s unfair labor methods.
“We want them to come back to the table and we want them to hear the concerns of our staff realisticly,” Lucy said. “We love our users, we love our users with help and we are in this fight to create better stores for our customers and better stores for our peers.”
What to know here.
Union has accused the unfair methods of labor
Union Says his strike efforts During the negotiations of the agreement, the company focuses on unfair labor methods.
The union says King Superstar questioned the union members about the union bargaining and conversation with the surveyed members of the union, as well as threatening the members of disciplinary operations and they were union equipment. To wear home from work.
The union says the company also urged the retirees to use Million 8 million precision benefits to pay for the wages of active workers.
“These are serious charges against King Sopists, the King of Krigar. They are trying to break and continue the law and are trying to force us to accept a new contract that leads us behind. It’s not going Said in a union’s news release.
In a press release, King Kelly called the union’s baseless allegations.
Kelly said, “We want to be clear – the demand for union strike is not about wages, health care, or pensions. It is based on allegations that we believe is lack of merit. And yet the NLRB or any court cannot be verified. “
The president of King Sopists called the demands ‘irrational’
A Video to employeesKelly said the union is “using any checked power to create uncertainty”, as well as forcing customers to go to other stores in the area, “Kelly because of all these carelessness plans From. “
Kelly said in a Monday release that the union should return to the bargaining table, and call their demands “irrational”.
Kelly said, “Now is the time to keep their irrational demands, false statements and head -looking tactics aside and work toward a fair and timely resolution that increases the salary of peers while keeping the grocery cheap It happens. “
King Super says its workers earn an average rate per hour .622.68.
In response to Kelly, in response to the union’s demands, Lucy said the president’s comments were humiliating.
“I think it is derogatory that he thinks of better residential wages for our customers, in view of the demands of a better staff, is unreasonable for our members.” “He is talking too much in the news how his consumers are responsible and once has never mentioned that he too is responsible for us.”
Which stores are on strike?
A according to A Press Release on Thursday From King Superstars, open hours will be shortened at the strike locations.
The company says the strike -affected stores will be open every day from 7am to 8pm, in these places the pharmacy will open from 7am to Friday to Friday and 10am to 5pm.
According to the UFCW7, these are places where workers are killing till Thursday. All places are in Colorado.
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