New Safeway locations joined UFCW Local 7’s strike efforts on Monday, bringing the total to six locations across the state with more expected in the coming days.
Among the hundreds of union workers already on strike is Castle Rock store clerk Tanner Vonstein. Vonstein says he voted to support the strike after five years with the company.
“I know it’s really important that if we’re together, then we can win this fight,” Vonstein said.
While shoppers may remember the recent strikes across Colorado King Soopers locations, UFCW Local 7 says this is the first Safeway strike in 29 years. The union says the strike comes to address what it says are unfair labor practices from Safeway…