![]() “The company’s ‘last, best, and final’ offer, in many ways, is worse than its previous offers,” said Kim Cordova, president of the local unit of the striking union. It also did not address worker concerns about Covid safety measures to protect both employees and customers, the union added. The union said that offer would have created a new subclass of gig workers, which it claimed would be used to reduce work hours and drain the company’s health fund for long-term employees. The rank-and-file workers at King Soopers and City Markets voted ovewhelmingly last week to authorize the strike, according to the union, which did not hold a separate vote to consider the company’s final offer. ![]() The number of members of the United Food & Commercial Workers union who are on strike make it the nation’s second largest strike of the last two years, behind only a five-week work stoppage by 10,000 auto workers at John Deere & Co. ![]() (KR), the nation’s largest stand-alone grocery retailer. The strike started Wednesday morning against the stores, which are part of Kroger About 8,000 grocery store workers at 77 King Soopers and City Markets stores in the Denver area are on strike after the union rejected what the company described as its best and final offer to replace a recently expired contract.
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