Safeway workers are striking at the same time as contract negotiations between workers and King Soopers are coming to a head. The union is negotiating with King Soopers and parent Kroger after a strike in February. That strike lasted almost two weeks before a deal was reached to pause the labor action for 100 days. That pause expired last month.

With the clock winding down toward Saturday night's deadline for new contract negotiations, a Colorado union has announced locations where grocery employees are set to walk off the job on Sunday in protest.

About 7,000 members of the United Food and Commercial Workers Local 7 working at Safeway and Albertsons grocery stores across Colorado could go on strike as soon as Sunday to protest

Additional stores in Colorado Springs, Fort Collins, Greeley, Loveland and Longmont will hold strike-authorization votes next week, the union said. If the Safeway/Albertsons strike expands to ...