Colorado Springs Safeway employees to vote on strike Tue.
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Safeway workers in several Colorado cities entered the third day of labor strikes Tuesday against Safeway and Albertsons over alleged unfair labor practices, with picketing in Grand Junction prompting a temporary store closure.
An old Safeway building on Pueblo's north side is getting new life with plans for a Planet Fitness. The old Safeway on West 29th Street has been divided into two addresses. The 635 W. 29th St. portion of the store is under construction for a new Planet Fitness exercise gym.
The space being offered for sale is on the ground floor of a 197-unit residential tower and is near San Jose State University.
Safeway employees across Colorado have been going on strike, one union after another. And Tuesday, the strikes reached Grand Junction.
The union representing Safeway store employees in Colorado has given the required 72-hour notice that the strike is set to begin one minute before midnight on Sunday.
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Pueblo and Pueblo West Safeway workers have joined a United Food and Commercial Workers Local 7 strike seeking better pay, staffing and benefits.
Employees at a Denver Safeway location walked off the job on Monday, joining their fellow workers on strike. ‘I was crying, I was a mess,’ Moises Sotelo-Casas’s daughter says. ‘He was in chains at his feet’