Safeway employees across Colorado have been going on strike, one union after another. And Tuesday, the strikes reached Grand Junction.

The officials of the United Food and Commercial Workers are deliberately isolating different sections of grocery workers to keep a national movement from emerging.

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.

Chronic understaffing at Albertsons and Kroger grocery stores has led to a near unanimous vote to strike in about 105 stores in Colorado – including 100% of the workers at the Salida Safeway store.

Labor negotiations between Safeway workers and the company have stalled in Colorado. A strike could happen as soon as Sunday, June 15.

In 2022, Kroger announced it would ... several grocery store staples. Unlike the King Soopers strike in February that was planned to last for two weeks, the Safeway strike has no set end date.