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Safeway Strike Reaches Seven Sites Across Colorado

Union leaders say they will escalate strikes until Safeway addresses key contract demands.

Peter Fowler, an employee at the Safeway grocery store at Garrison Street and West Colfax Avenue in Denver, cleans up outside the store on June 16, 2025. Although Safeway employees across Colorado recently began a limited strike, no picket line was present at this location. (Photo by RJ Sangosti/The Denver Post)
On June 15, workers started a limited strike at Safeway/Alberstons locations in four Colorado cities over numerous unfair labor practices.
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The Colorado Safeway/Albertsons strike has expended to two more cities.

Overview

  • Picket lines have spread to seven sites, with walkouts now active at Castle Rock and Littleton in addition to stores in Estes Park, Fountain, two Pueblo locations and a Denver distribution center.
  • Union members are striking over chronic understaffing, cuts to health care contributions and proposed changes to pension benefits for retirees.
  • Safeway spokesperson Heather Halpape said the company remains committed to good-faith talks and called unfair labor practice claims without merit.
  • Strike authorization votes are in progress at stores in Colorado Springs, Fort Collins, Greeley, Longmont, Loveland while the union withholds future strike targets to preserve leverage.
  • United Food and Commercial Workers Local7 president Kim Cordova indicated that King Soopers workers could rejoin picket lines if contract talks with Kroger stall.