L7 Press Releases

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE – GROCERY WORKERS, ELECTED OFFICIALS, & COMMUNITY LEADERS IN COLORADO ASK THE FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSION TO STOP THE MERGER OF KROGER, PARENT COMPANY OF KING SOOPERS & CITY MARKET, AND SAFEWAY-ALBERTSONS – April 7, 2023
For Immediate Release – United in Opposition to the Kroger-Albertsons Merger, Coalition of Over 100 Organizations from Across the Country Join Forces & Launch the “Stop the Merger” Website – March 15, 2023
MEDIA ADVISORY – Workers, Faith & Civic Leaders to Participate in Interfaith Labor Seder
For Immediate Release – Workers Made the Case for Colorado Fair Workweek Bill – February 16, 2023
For Immediate Release – COLORADO FAIR WORKWEEK COALITION FIGHTING FOR WORKING COLORADANS – February 3, 2023
For Immediate Release – UFCW Local Unions Disappointed by Washington State Supreme Court Ruling to Allow Albertsons Massive $4 Billion Dividend as Part of Proposed Mega- Merger – January 17, 2023
For Immediate Release – UFCW LOCAL 7 MEMBERS AT DENVER PROCESSING RATIFY 3-YEAR CONTRACT WITH SUBSTANTIAL GAINS, ENDING THREAT OF A STRIKE  – December 15, 2022
For Immediate Release – UFCW LOCAL 7 DENVER PROCESSING MEAT PLANT EMPLOYEES VOTE TO STRIKE – December 10, 2022
For Immediate Release – UFCW LOCAL 7 APPLAUDS COLORADO ATTORNEY GENERAL PHIL WEISER FOR LEADING A MULTI-STATE INVESTIGATION INTO PROPOSED KROGER-ALBERTSONS ‘ MEGA MERGER – December 8, 2022
For Immediate Release – UFCW LOCAL UNIONS COMMEND ATTORNEYS GENERAL FOR WORKING TO HALT ALBERTSONS CASH GRAB – December 1, 2022
For Immediate Release – UFCW LOCAL UNIONS CALL ON REGULATORS TO OPPOSE DEVASTATING KROGER-ALBERTSONS MERGER – November 29, 2022
For Immediate Release – ESSENTIAL GROCERY STORE WORKERS UNIONS ISSUE JOINT STATEMENT IN RESPONSE TO PROPOSED KROGER/ALBERTSONS MERGER – October 13, 2022
For Immediate Release – UFCW, TRADER JOE’S WORKERS CALL ON TRADER JOE’S TO STOP UNION BUSTING AT BELOVED NYC WINE SHOP – August 18, 2022
For Immediate Release – UFCW LOCAL 7 FILES A UNION ELECTION PETITION WITH THE NLRB FOR TRADER JOE’S EMPLOYEES AT THE BOULDER STORE – July 26, 2022
For Immediate Release – UFCW LOCAL 7 HONORS & REMEMBERS THE TABLE MESA KING SOOPERS SHOOTING VICTIMS ON ONE-YEAR ANNIVERSARY – March 22, 2022
For Immediate Release – UFCW LOCAL 7 AND SAFEWAY/ALBERTSONS REACH TENTATIVE AGREEMENT – February 17, 2022
For Immediate Release  – – UFCW LOCAL 7 RESPONDS TO KING SOOPERS’ FILING A TEMPORARY RESTRAINING ORDER ON UNION MEMBERS – January 18, 2022
For Immediate Release – UFCW LOCAL 7 UPDATE ON NEGOTIATION BREAKDOWN WITH KING SOOPERS – January 18, 2022
For Immediate Release – UFCW LOCAL 7 UPDATE ON BARGAINING NEGOTIATIONS WITH KING SOOPERS – January 16, 2022
For Immediate Release – UFCW LOCAL 7 PRESIDENT KIM CORDOVA STATEMENT ON TODAY’S NEGOTIATIONS – January 14, 2022
For Immediate Release –  UFCW LOCAL 7 UPDATE ON BARGAINING NEGOTIATIONS WITH KING SOOPERS – January 13, 2022
Media Advisory – TOMORROW: UFCW LOCAL 7 GROCERY STORE WORKERS TO RALLY IN DENVER – January 12, 2022
For Immediate Release – UFCW LOCAL 7 RESPONDS TO KING SOOPERS ‘LAST, BEST AND FINAL’ OFFER – January 11, 2022
Media Advisory – UFCW LOCAL 7 TO PROVIDE UPDATES ON STRIKE – January 10, 2022
For Immediate Release – UFCW LOCAL 7 KING SOOPERS EMPLOYEE TO STRIKE ON JANUARY 12 – January 7, 2022
For Immediate Release-UFCW LOCAL 7 KING SOOPERS WORKERS TO STRIKE -January 6, 2022
For Immediate Release – UFCW LOCAL 7 KING SOOPERS EMPLOYEES VOTE TO STRIKE IN DENVER, BOULDER – January 3, 2022
For Immediate Release – UFCW LOCAL 7 KING SOOPERS TO SECURE VOTES FOR A POTENTIAL STRIKE – December 30, 2021
For Immediate Release – UFCW LOCAL 7 STATEMENT ON KING SOOPERS’ LATEST ATTEMPT TO DECEIVE EMPLOYEES AND THE PUBLIC – December 29 2021
For Immediate Release – UFCW LOCAL 7 FILES AGAINST KING SOOPERS FOR BREACH OF CONTRACT – December 29, 2021
For Immediate Release – UFCW LOCAL 7 PRESIDENT STATEMENT ON KROGER’S HARMFUL COVID-19 POLICY CHANGES – December 20, 2021
For Immediate Release – AMERICA’S LARGEST RETAIL UNION CALLS ON CEOS FOR ACTION ON OMICRON AND WINTER COVID SURGE TO PROTECT ESSENTIAL WORKERS AND CUSTOMERS – December 10, 2021
For Immediate Release – UFCW LOCAL 7 HEALTH CARE WORKERS VOTE TO RATIFY LABOR AGREEMENT WITH KAISER PERMANENTE – – December 8, 2021
For Immediate Release – UFCW LOCAL 7 HEALTH CARE WORKERS REACH TENTATIVE DEAL WITH KAISER PERMANENTE- November 15, 2021
For Immediate Release – UFCW LOCAL 7 SUE KAISER PERMANENTE ON BEHALF OF HEALTH CARE WORKERS – October 15, 2021
Media Advisory – HEALTHCARE WORKERS HOLD RALLY TO SAVE PATIENTS LIVES – October 12,  2021
For Immediate Release – UFCW LOCAL 7 OFFERS CONDOLENCES TO OUR SISTERS AND BROTHERS OF UFCW LOCAL 1529 – September 23, 2021
For Immediate Release – UFCW LOCAL 7 OFFERS CONDOLENCES TO OUR SISTERS AND BROTHERS OF UFCW LOCAL 1529 – September 23, 2021
For Immediate Release – UFCW LOCAL 7 MOURNS LOSS OF OUTSPOKEN AFL-CIO PRESIDENT RICHARD TRUMKA – August 5, 2021
For Immediate Release – UFCW LOCAL 7 APPLAUDS PASSAGE OF COLORADO LEGISLATION TO ALLOW AGRICULTURE WORKERS TO UNIONIZE – June 28, 2021 
For Immediate Release – ONE YEAR AFTER TAKING AWAY HERO PAY FROM EMPLOYEES, KROGER GIVES EXECUTIVES A BIG PAY RAISE – May 17, 2021
Media Advisory – UFCW LOCAL 7 & COLORADO AFL-CIO TO HOLD PRESS CONFERENCE & MEMORIAL TO COMMEMORATE WORKERS’ MEMORIAL DAY- April 28, 2021
For Immediate Release – UFCW LOCAL 7 STATEMENT ON WORKERS’ MEMORIAL DAY AND THE RENEWED PROMISE OF SAFE JOBS FOR ALL – April 28, 2021
Media Advisory – UFCW LOCAL 7 & COLORADO AFL-CIO TO HOLD PRESS CONFERENCE & MEMORIAL TO COMMEMORATE WORKERS’ MEMORIAL DAY – April 26, 2021
For Immediate Release – UFCW LOCAL 7 REACTS TO NLRB’S DECISION TO ALLOW UNION VOTE AT JBS GREELEY – April 23, 2021
Media Advisory – UFCW LOCAL 7 & COLORADO AFL-CIO TO HOLD PRESS CONFERENCE & MEMORIAL TO COMMEMORATE NATIONAL WORKERS’ MEMORIAL DAY – April 22, 2021
For Immediate Release – UFCW LOCAL 7 MOURNS  TRAGIC DEATHS OF SEVERAL VICTIMS AFTER ACTIVE SHOOTING AT A KING SOOPERS STORE IN BOULDER, COLORADO – March 22, 2021
For Immediate Release – UFCW LOCAL 7 DISPLEASED AND DEEPLY CONCERNED BY COLORADO’S DECISION TO LIFT STATEWIDE MASK MANDATE AND EASE PROTOFCOLS – March 22, 2021
For Immediate Release –  OVER 3,000 COVID-19 VACCINES GIVEN TO UNION MEMBERS DURING VACCINE DISTRIBUTION CLINIC AT JBS MEAT PROCESSING PLANT; AN IMPORTANT STEP TOWARDS A SAFE WORKPLACE, BUT NOT ENOUGH – March 10, 2021
For Immediate Release – UFCW LOCAL 7, PUEBLO DEPT. OF HEALTH & PUEBLO  SHERIFF DEPT. SECURE COVID-19 VACCINES FOR ESSENTIAL MISSION FOODS PLANT WORKERS – March 8, 2021 
For Immediate Release – UFCW LOCAL 7 APPLAUDS REINTRODUCTION OF THE PRO ACT TO REVAMP LABOR LAWS – March 2, 2021
Media Advisory – THURSDAY EVENT ON LATINO ESSENTIAL WOREKRS: UFCW LOCAL 7 AND LATINO COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF COLORADO – February 26, 2021
For Immediate Release – UFCW LOCAL 7 SECURES VACCINE DISTRIBUTION SITE AT JBS MEAT PROCESSING PLANT IN GREELEY PROVIDING THOUSANDS OF ESSENTIAL WORKERS ACCESS TO THE COVID-19 VACCINE – February 24, 2021
For Immediate Release – UFCW LOCAL 7 APPLAUDS HOUSE SELECT SUBCOMMITTEE INVESTIGATION INTO WIDESPREAD COVID-19 INFECTIONS AND DEATHS IN MEATPACKING PLANTS – February 1, 2021
For Immediate Release – UFCW LOCAL 7 MOURNS THE PASSING OF DEDICATED SAFEWAY WORKER, UNION SISTER, AND LOYAL FRIEND – January 25, 2021
For Immediate Release – UFCW LOCAL 7 RESPONDS TO JBS USA’S COVID-19 VACCINE INCENTIVE BONUS, HIGHLIGHTING FAILURES – January 22, 2021
For Immediate Release – UFCW LOCAL 7 RESPONDE AL BONO DE INCENTIVO PARA LA VACUNA COVID-19 DE JBS, DESTACANDO FALLAS – January 22, 2021 Spanish
For Immediate Release – UFCW LOCAL 7 STATEMENT FOLLOWING PRESIDENT JOSEPH R. BIDEN’S INAUGURATION ADDRESS – January 21, 2021
For Immediate Release – AFTER ANOTHER COVID-19 OUTBREAK, UFCW LOCAL 7 REIGNITES CALL TO TEMPORARILY CLOSE MISSION PLANT IN PUEBLO, CO FOR SANITATION – January 14, 2021
For Immediate Release – UFCW LOCAL 7 DEMANDS EQUAL PAY FOR ALL AS DENVER HOSTS PUBLIC HEARING ON “CERTIFIED YOUTH EMPLOYMENT PROGRAM” WHICH WILL PAY MINORS LESS – January 6, 2021
For Immediate Release – UFCW LOCAL 7 AND SAFEWAY, ALBERTSONS REMIND CUSTOMERS TO WEAR MASKS – December 29, 2020
For Immediate Release – LOCAL 7 GROCERY WORKERS, COLORADANS FOR THE COMMON GOOD, AND CONGRESSMAN JASON CROW (CO06) CALL ON COMPANIES TO PROTECT EMPLOYEES AND COMMUNITY DURING PANDEMIC – December 16, 2020
For Immediate Release – Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) Joins UFCW Local 7 and Local 21 in Letter to Kroger CEO Rodney McMullen Demanding Safer Stores and Fair Compensation For Essential Grocery Workers – December 14, 2020
For Immediate Release – Colorado’s Working Families Left Waiting For COVID Relief, As GOP Tries to Shield Employers from Liability – December 11, 2020
For Immediate Release – UFCW LOCAL 7 REACTION TO THE CDC’S RECOMMENDATIONS REGARDING FIRST COVID-19 VACCINATIONS – December 7, 2020
For Immediate Release – UFCW LOCAL 7 ASKS FOR TEMPORARY CLOSING OF MISSION PLANT IN PUEBLO, CO FOR DEEP CLEANING AMIDST ANOTHER COVID-19 OUTBREAK – December 2, 2020
For Immediate Release – UFCW LOCAL 7 CALLS OUT WELD COUNTY, CO FOR FAILURE TO PROTECT ESSENTIAL WORKERS – November 25, 2020
For Immediate Release – NEW OUTBREAK AT JBS GREELEY SHOWS COMPANY IS NOT DOING ENOUGH TO PROTECT WORKERS – November 20, 2020
For Immediate Release – GROCERY EMPLOYERS MUST HELP “SPREAD THANKS, NOT COVID” TO ESSENTIAL WORKERS THIS HOLIDAY SEASON –  November 18, 2020
For Immediate Release – UFCW LOCAL 7 AND SAFEWAY, ALBERTSONS REMIND CUSTOMERS TO WEAR MASKS – November 16, 2020
For Immediate Release – UFCW LOCAL 7 PREPARES TO WORK WITH NEW AND INCUMBENT LOCAL AND NATIONAL ELECTED OFFICIALS AFTER TURNING OUT TO VOTE IN HISTORIC NUMBERS – November 10, 2020
For Immediate Release – THE AMERICAN PEOPLE HAVE SPOKEN: UFCW LOCAL 7 CELEBRATES JOE BIDEN’S PRESIDENTIAL VICTORY – November 7, 2020
For Immediate Release – UFCW LOCAL 7 CELEBRATES KEY COLORADO ELECTORAL VICTORIES – November 4, 2020
For Immediate Release – UFCW LOCAL 7 CELEBRATES PASSAGE OF PROPOSITION 118 – November 3, 2020
For Immediate Release – CORY GARDNER DEFLECTS ANSWERING DEBATE QUESTION ABOUT SECURING 5,000 TESTS FOR JBS MEATPACKING WORKERS BECAUSE WORKERS WERE NEVER TESTED DURING THIS PERIOD – October 14, 2020
For Immediate Release – AHEAD OF TELEMUNDO DENVER’S SENATE DEBATE, UFCW LOCAL 7 CALLS OUT COLORADO SEN. CORY GARDNER’S FAILURE TO PROTECT ESSENTIAL WORKERS – October 6, 2020
For Immediate Release – UFCW Local 7 Outraged at JBS COVID-19 Worker’s Compensation Denials – September 29, 2020
For Immediate Release – JBS BOUGHT SEN. CORY GARDNER’S SILENCE (R-CO) FOR $24,000 IN POLITICAL DONATIONS, WHILE THE 5,000 TESTS HE PROMISED FOR GREELEY WORKERS WERE CANCELLED – September 24, 2020
For Immediate Release – COLORADO COMMUNITY GROUPS UFCW LOCAL 7, COLORADANS FOR THE COMMON GOOD, & TOWARDS JUSTICE CALL ON ATTORNEY GENERAL PHILIP WEISER TO PROTECT ESSENTIAL WORKERS – September 21, 2020
For Immediate Release – UFCW LOCAL 7: OSHA FAILS TO HOLD JBS RESPONSIBLE FOR FAILED PANDEMIC RESPONSE – September 12, 2020
For Immediate Release – AHEAD OF LABOR DAY, UFCW LOCAL 7 DEMANDS HAZARD PAY FOR ALL ESSENTIAL WORKERS DURING PANDEMIC – September 1, 2020
For Immediate Release -AFTER BRAGGING ABOUT SECURING COVID-19 TESTS FOR JBS WORKERS, UFCW LOCAL 7 ASKS “WHERE ARE THE
TESTS, CORY?” – August 10, 2020
For Immediate Release – UFCW LOCAL 7 SAYS COMMUNITY DONATION WON’T MAKE UP FOR THE LIVES LOST AT JBS GREELEY PLANT – August 5, 2020
For Immediate Release – UFCW LOCAL 7 SECURES WAGE INCREASE FOR WORKERS AT JBS GREELEY WITHOUT REOPENING CONTRACT; UNION SAYS MORE CHANGES NEEDED TO PROTECT ESSENTIAL WORKERS – July 20, 2020
For Immediate Release – UFCW LOCAL 7 CELEBRATES PAID SICK LEAVE AND WHISTLEBLOWER PROTECTION BILLS BEING SIGNED INTO LAW – July 14, 2020
For Immediate Release – LOCAL 7 PRESIDENT CALLS ON JBS TO COME TO THE TABLE TO DISCUSS PROTECTIONS FOR JBS WORKERS IN GREELEY – July 10, 2020
For Immediate Release – UFCW LOCAL 7 APPLAUDS TRI-COUNTY HEALTH DEPARTMENT BOARD FOR VOTING IN FAVOR OF A MASK MANDATE FOR ADAMS, ARAPAHOE AND DOUGLAS COUNTIES, BUT DISAPPOINTED AT EXCEPTIONS July 8, 2020
For Immediate Release – UFCW LOCAL 7 UNVEILS BILLBOARDS TO MEMORIALIZE SIX JBS WORKERS THAT DIED FROM COVID-19; INVITES FAMILIES AND COMMUNITY MEMBERS TO JUNE 28TH MEMORIAL – June 19, 2020
For Immediate Release – UFCW LOCAL 7 CELEBRATES PASSAGE OF PAID SICK LEAVE FOR ALL COLORADANS; URGES GOVERNOR POLIS TO SIGN LEGISLATION QUICKLY INTO LAW – June 15, 2020
For Immediate Release – UFCW LOCAL 7 DEMANDS THAT SAFEWAY/ALBERTSONS KEEP “APPRECIATION PAY” FOR ESSENTIAL GROCERY WORKERS – June 12, 2020
For Immediate Release – UFCW LOCAL 7 STANDS IN SOLIDARITY WITH THE PEACEFUL PROTESTORS AND DEMANDS JUSTICE AND EQUALITY FOR ALL AMERICANS – June 2, 2020
For Immediate Release – ANOTHER KROGER GROCERY WORKER DIES FROM COVID-19, YET KROGER REFUSES TO IMPROVE STORE SAFETY MEASURES AND CUTS HERO PAY – May 17, 2020
For Immediate Release – UNION LOSES ANOTHER MEMBER TO COVID-19 FROM JBS PLANT IN GREELEY, COLORADO – May 17, 2020
For Immediate Release – KROGER DISREGARDS DANGERS ESSENTIAL GROCERY WORKERS FACE. STRIPS ‘HERO PAY’ AS COVID-19 CONTINUES TO SPREAD & KROGER’S PROFITS SOAR – May 15, 2020
For Immediate Release – UFCW 7 THANKS ALBERTSONS AND SAFEWAY STORES FOR EXTENDING HERO PAY FOR ESSENTIAL GROCERY WORKERS – May 15, 2020
For Immediate Release – KROGER CEO RECEIVES 21% COMPENSATION INCREASE, WHILE GROCER ENDS $2/HR BONUS FOR FRONTLINE
ESSENTIAL WORKERS – May 13, 2020
For Immediate Release – GROCERY STORE UNIONS CALL ON KROGER TO CEASE PLANS TO CUT HERO PAY FOR ESSENTIAL WORKERS, IMPROVE SAFETY IN STORES – May 7 2020
 For Immediate Release – ANOTHER JBS PLANT WORKER IN GREELEY, COLORADO LOST TO COVID-19; TOTAL OF 280 POSITIVE CASES – May 6, 2020
For Immediate Release – ON INTERNATIONAL WORKERS’ DAY, UFCW LOCAL 7 STANDS WITH UNREPRESENTED GROCERY WORKERS
DURING THE MAY DAY STRIKE – May 1, 2020
For Immediate Release – UNION LOSES ANOTHER MEMBER TO COVID-19, AS POSITIVE CASES DOUBLE AT THE GREELEY JBS PLANT – April 30, 2020
For Immediate Release – UFCW LOCAL 7 OF COLORADO: PRESIDENT TRUMP’S EXECUTIVE ORDER WON’T PROTECT THE FOOD SUPPLY CHAIN IF IT DOESN’T PROTECT WORKERS – April 28, 2020
For Immediate Release – ANOTHER LOCAL 7 MEMBER DIES TODAY AS JBS THREATENS LEGAL ACTION AGAINST UNION FOR ENSURING SAFETY OF ITS WORKERS AT GREELEY PLANT- April 26, 2020
For Immediate Release – UFCW LOCAL 7 ESTABLISHES ONE MILLION DOLLARS ($1,000,000.00) COVID-19 EMERGENCY HARDSHIP FUND – March 24, 2020
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE – August 18, 2022
For Immediate Release – UFCW LOCAL 7 FILES A UNION ELECTION PETITION WITH THE NLRB FOR TRADER JOE’S EMPLOYEES AT THE BOULDER STORE – July 26, 2022
For Immediate Release – UFCW LOCAL 7 HONORS & REMEMBERS THE TABLE MESA KING SOOPERS SHOOTING VICTIMS ON ONE-YEAR ANNIVERSARY – March 22, 2022
For Immediate Release – UFCW LOCAL 7 AND SAFEWAY/ALBERTSONS REACH TENTATIVE AGREEMENT – February 17, 2022
For Immediate Release  – – UFCW LOCAL 7 RESPONDS TO KING SOOPERS’ FILING A TEMPORARY RESTRAINING ORDER ON UNION MEMBERS – January 18, 2022
For Immediate Release – UFCW LOCAL 7 UPDATE ON NEGOTIATION BREAKDOWN WITH KING SOOPERS – January 18, 2022
For Immediate Release – UFCW LOCAL 7 UPDATE ON BARGAINING NEGOTIATIONS WITH KING SOOPERS – January 16, 2022
For Immediate Release – UFCW LOCAL 7 PRESIDENT KIM CORDOVA STATEMENT ON TODAY’S NEGOTIATIONS – January 14, 2022
For Immediate Release –  UFCW LOCAL 7 UPDATE ON BARGAINING NEGOTIATIONS WITH KING SOOPERS – January 13, 2022
Media Advisory – TOMORROW: UFCW LOCAL 7 GROCERY STORE WORKERS TO RALLY IN DENVER – January 12, 2022
For Immediate Release – UFCW LOCAL 7 RESPONDS TO KING SOOPERS ‘LAST, BEST AND FINAL’ OFFER – January 11, 2022
Media Advisory – UFCW LOCAL 7 TO PROVIDE UPDATES ON STRIKE – January 10, 2022
For Immediate Release – UFCW LOCAL 7 KING SOOPERS EMPLOYEE TO STRIKE ON JANUARY 12 – January 7, 2022
For Immediate Release-UFCW LOCAL 7 KING SOOPERS WORKERS TO STRIKE -January 6, 2022
For Immediate Release – UFCW LOCAL 7 KING SOOPERS EMPLOYEES VOTE TO STRIKE IN DENVER, BOULDER – January 3, 2022
For Immediate Release – UFCW LOCAL 7 KING SOOPERS TO SECURE VOTES FOR A POTENTIAL STRIKE – December 30, 2021
For Immediate Release – UFCW LOCAL 7 STATEMENT ON KING SOOPERS’ LATEST ATTEMPT TO DECEIVE EMPLOYEES AND THE PUBLIC – December 29 2021
For Immediate Release – UFCW LOCAL 7 FILES AGAINST KING SOOPERS FOR BREACH OF CONTRACT – December 29, 2021
For Immediate Release – UFCW LOCAL 7 PRESIDENT STATEMENT ON KROGER’S HARMFUL COVID-19 POLICY CHANGES – December 20, 2021
For Immediate Release – AMERICA’S LARGEST RETAIL UNION CALLS ON CEOS FOR ACTION ON OMICRON AND WINTER COVID SURGE TO PROTECT ESSENTIAL WORKERS AND CUSTOMERS – December 10, 2021
For Immediate Release – UFCW LOCAL 7 HEALTH CARE WORKERS VOTE TO RATIFY LABOR AGREEMENT WITH KAISER PERMANENTE – – December 8, 2021
For Immediate Release – UFCW LOCAL 7 HEALTH CARE WORKERS REACH TENTATIVE DEAL WITH KAISER PERMANENTE- November 15, 2021
For Immediate Release – UFCW LOCAL 7 SUE KAISER PERMANENTE ON BEHALF OF HEALTH CARE WORKERS – October 15, 2021
Media Advisory – HEALTHCARE WORKERS HOLD RALLY TO SAVE PATIENTS LIVES – October 12,  2021
For Immediate Release – UFCW LOCAL 7 OFFERS CONDOLENCES TO OUR SISTERS AND BROTHERS OF UFCW LOCAL 1529 – September 23, 2021
For Immediate Release – UFCW LOCAL 7 OFFERS CONDOLENCES TO OUR SISTERS AND BROTHERS OF UFCW LOCAL 1529 – September 23, 2021
For Immediate Release – UFCW LOCAL 7 MOURNS LOSS OF OUTSPOKEN AFL-CIO PRESIDENT RICHARD TRUMKA – August 5, 2021
For Immediate Release – UFCW LOCAL 7 APPLAUDS PASSAGE OF COLORADO LEGISLATION TO ALLOW AGRICULTURE WORKERS TO UNIONIZE – June 28, 2021 
For Immediate Release – ONE YEAR AFTER TAKING AWAY HERO PAY FROM EMPLOYEES, KROGER GIVES EXECUTIVES A BIG PAY RAISE – May 17, 2021
Media Advisory – UFCW LOCAL 7 & COLORADO AFL-CIO TO HOLD PRESS CONFERENCE & MEMORIAL TO COMMEMORATE WORKERS’ MEMORIAL DAY- April 28, 2021
For Immediate Release – UFCW LOCAL 7 STATEMENT ON WORKERS’ MEMORIAL DAY AND THE RENEWED PROMISE OF SAFE JOBS FOR ALL – April 28, 2021
Media Advisory – UFCW LOCAL 7 & COLORADO AFL-CIO TO HOLD PRESS CONFERENCE & MEMORIAL TO COMMEMORATE WORKERS’ MEMORIAL DAY – April 26, 2021
For Immediate Release – UFCW LOCAL 7 REACTS TO NLRB’S DECISION TO ALLOW UNION VOTE AT JBS GREELEY – April 23, 2021
Media Advisory – UFCW LOCAL 7 & COLORADO AFL-CIO TO HOLD PRESS CONFERENCE & MEMORIAL TO COMMEMORATE NATIONAL WORKERS’ MEMORIAL DAY – April 22, 2021
For Immediate Release – UFCW LOCAL 7 MOURNS  TRAGIC DEATHS OF SEVERAL VICTIMS AFTER ACTIVE SHOOTING AT A KING SOOPERS STORE IN BOULDER, COLORADO – March 22, 2021
For Immediate Release – UFCW LOCAL 7 DISPLEASED AND DEEPLY CONCERNED BY COLORADO’S DECISION TO LIFT STATEWIDE MASK MANDATE AND EASE PROTOFCOLS – March 22, 2021
For Immediate Release –  OVER 3,000 COVID-19 VACCINES GIVEN TO UNION MEMBERS DURING VACCINE DISTRIBUTION CLINIC AT JBS MEAT PROCESSING PLANT; AN IMPORTANT STEP TOWARDS A SAFE WORKPLACE, BUT NOT ENOUGH – March 10, 2021
For Immediate Release – UFCW LOCAL 7, PUEBLO DEPT. OF HEALTH & PUEBLO  SHERIFF DEPT. SECURE COVID-19 VACCINES FOR ESSENTIAL MISSION FOODS PLANT WORKERS – March 8, 2021 
For Immediate Release – UFCW LOCAL 7 APPLAUDS REINTRODUCTION OF THE PRO ACT TO REVAMP LABOR LAWS – March 2, 2021
Media Advisory – THURSDAY EVENT ON LATINO ESSENTIAL WOREKRS: UFCW LOCAL 7 AND LATINO COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF COLORADO – February 26, 2021
For Immediate Release – UFCW LOCAL 7 SECURES VACCINE DISTRIBUTION SITE AT JBS MEAT PROCESSING PLANT IN GREELEY PROVIDING THOUSANDS OF ESSENTIAL WORKERS ACCESS TO THE COVID-19 VACCINE – February 24, 2021
For Immediate Release – UFCW LOCAL 7 APPLAUDS HOUSE SELECT SUBCOMMITTEE INVESTIGATION INTO WIDESPREAD COVID-19 INFECTIONS AND DEATHS IN MEATPACKING PLANTS – February 1, 2021
For Immediate Release – UFCW LOCAL 7 MOURNS THE PASSING OF DEDICATED SAFEWAY WORKER, UNION SISTER, AND LOYAL FRIEND – January 25, 2021
For Immediate Release – UFCW LOCAL 7 RESPONDS TO JBS USA’S COVID-19 VACCINE INCENTIVE BONUS, HIGHLIGHTING FAILURES – January 22, 2021
For Immediate Release – UFCW LOCAL 7 RESPONDE AL BONO DE INCENTIVO PARA LA VACUNA COVID-19 DE JBS, DESTACANDO FALLAS – January 22, 2021 Spanish
For Immediate Release – UFCW LOCAL 7 STATEMENT FOLLOWING PRESIDENT JOSEPH R. BIDEN’S INAUGURATION ADDRESS – January 21, 2021
For Immediate Release – AFTER ANOTHER COVID-19 OUTBREAK, UFCW LOCAL 7 REIGNITES CALL TO TEMPORARILY CLOSE MISSION PLANT IN PUEBLO, CO FOR SANITATION – January 14, 2021
For Immediate Release – UFCW LOCAL 7 DEMANDS EQUAL PAY FOR ALL AS DENVER HOSTS PUBLIC HEARING ON “CERTIFIED YOUTH EMPLOYMENT PROGRAM” WHICH WILL PAY MINORS LESS – January 6, 2021
For Immediate Release – UFCW LOCAL 7 AND SAFEWAY, ALBERTSONS REMIND CUSTOMERS TO WEAR MASKS – December 29, 2020
For Immediate Release – LOCAL 7 GROCERY WORKERS, COLORADANS FOR THE COMMON GOOD, AND CONGRESSMAN JASON CROW (CO06) CALL ON COMPANIES TO PROTECT EMPLOYEES AND COMMUNITY DURING PANDEMIC – December 16, 2020
For Immediate Release – Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) Joins UFCW Local 7 and Local 21 in Letter to Kroger CEO Rodney McMullen Demanding Safer Stores and Fair Compensation For Essential Grocery Workers – December 14, 2020
For Immediate Release – Colorado’s Working Families Left Waiting For COVID Relief, As GOP Tries to Shield Employers from Liability – December 11, 2020
For Immediate Release – UFCW LOCAL 7 REACTION TO THE CDC’S RECOMMENDATIONS REGARDING FIRST COVID-19 VACCINATIONS – December 7, 2020
For Immediate Release – UFCW LOCAL 7 ASKS FOR TEMPORARY CLOSING OF MISSION PLANT IN PUEBLO, CO FOR DEEP CLEANING AMIDST ANOTHER COVID-19 OUTBREAK – December 2, 2020
For Immediate Release – UFCW LOCAL 7 CALLS OUT WELD COUNTY, CO FOR FAILURE TO PROTECT ESSENTIAL WORKERS – November 25, 2020
For Immediate Release – NEW OUTBREAK AT JBS GREELEY SHOWS COMPANY IS NOT DOING ENOUGH TO PROTECT WORKERS – November 20, 2020
For Immediate Release – GROCERY EMPLOYERS MUST HELP “SPREAD THANKS, NOT COVID” TO ESSENTIAL WORKERS THIS HOLIDAY SEASON –  November 18, 2020
For Immediate Release – UFCW LOCAL 7 AND SAFEWAY, ALBERTSONS REMIND CUSTOMERS TO WEAR MASKS – November 16, 2020
For Immediate Release – UFCW LOCAL 7 PREPARES TO WORK WITH NEW AND INCUMBENT LOCAL AND NATIONAL ELECTED OFFICIALS AFTER TURNING OUT TO VOTE IN HISTORIC NUMBERS – November 10, 2020
For Immediate Release – THE AMERICAN PEOPLE HAVE SPOKEN: UFCW LOCAL 7 CELEBRATES JOE BIDEN’S PRESIDENTIAL VICTORY – November 7, 2020
For Immediate Release – UFCW LOCAL 7 CELEBRATES KEY COLORADO ELECTORAL VICTORIES – November 4, 2020
For Immediate Release – UFCW LOCAL 7 CELEBRATES PASSAGE OF PROPOSITION 118 – November 3, 2020
For Immediate Release – CORY GARDNER DEFLECTS ANSWERING DEBATE QUESTION ABOUT SECURING 5,000 TESTS FOR JBS MEATPACKING WORKERS BECAUSE WORKERS WERE NEVER TESTED DURING THIS PERIOD – October 14, 2020
For Immediate Release – AHEAD OF TELEMUNDO DENVER’S SENATE DEBATE, UFCW LOCAL 7 CALLS OUT COLORADO SEN. CORY GARDNER’S FAILURE TO PROTECT ESSENTIAL WORKERS – October 6, 2020
For Immediate Release – UFCW Local 7 Outraged at JBS COVID-19 Worker’s Compensation Denials – September 29, 2020
For Immediate Release – JBS BOUGHT SEN. CORY GARDNER’S SILENCE (R-CO) FOR $24,000 IN POLITICAL DONATIONS, WHILE THE 5,000 TESTS HE PROMISED FOR GREELEY WORKERS WERE CANCELLED – September 24, 2020
For Immediate Release – COLORADO COMMUNITY GROUPS UFCW LOCAL 7, COLORADANS FOR THE COMMON GOOD, & TOWARDS JUSTICE CALL ON ATTORNEY GENERAL PHILIP WEISER TO PROTECT ESSENTIAL WORKERS – September 21, 2020
For Immediate Release – UFCW LOCAL 7: OSHA FAILS TO HOLD JBS RESPONSIBLE FOR FAILED PANDEMIC RESPONSE – September 12, 2020
For Immediate Release – AHEAD OF LABOR DAY, UFCW LOCAL 7 DEMANDS HAZARD PAY FOR ALL ESSENTIAL WORKERS DURING PANDEMIC – September 1, 2020
For Immediate Release -AFTER BRAGGING ABOUT SECURING COVID-19 TESTS FOR JBS WORKERS, UFCW LOCAL 7 ASKS “WHERE ARE THE
TESTS, CORY?” – August 10, 2020
For Immediate Release – UFCW LOCAL 7 SAYS COMMUNITY DONATION WON’T MAKE UP FOR THE LIVES LOST AT JBS GREELEY PLANT – August 5, 2020
For Immediate Release – UFCW LOCAL 7 SECURES WAGE INCREASE FOR WORKERS AT JBS GREELEY WITHOUT REOPENING CONTRACT; UNION SAYS MORE CHANGES NEEDED TO PROTECT ESSENTIAL WORKERS – July 20, 2020
For Immediate Release – UFCW LOCAL 7 CELEBRATES PAID SICK LEAVE AND WHISTLEBLOWER PROTECTION BILLS BEING SIGNED INTO LAW – July 14, 2020
For Immediate Release – LOCAL 7 PRESIDENT CALLS ON JBS TO COME TO THE TABLE TO DISCUSS PROTECTIONS FOR JBS WORKERS IN GREELEY – July 10, 2020
For Immediate Release – UFCW LOCAL 7 APPLAUDS TRI-COUNTY HEALTH DEPARTMENT BOARD FOR VOTING IN FAVOR OF A MASK MANDATE FOR ADAMS, ARAPAHOE AND DOUGLAS COUNTIES, BUT DISAPPOINTED AT EXCEPTIONS July 8, 2020
For Immediate Release – UFCW LOCAL 7 UNVEILS BILLBOARDS TO MEMORIALIZE SIX JBS WORKERS THAT DIED FROM COVID-19; INVITES FAMILIES AND COMMUNITY MEMBERS TO JUNE 28TH MEMORIAL – June 19, 2020
For Immediate Release – UFCW LOCAL 7 CELEBRATES PASSAGE OF PAID SICK LEAVE FOR ALL COLORADANS; URGES GOVERNOR POLIS TO SIGN LEGISLATION QUICKLY INTO LAW – June 15, 2020
For Immediate Release – UFCW LOCAL 7 DEMANDS THAT SAFEWAY/ALBERTSONS KEEP “APPRECIATION PAY” FOR ESSENTIAL GROCERY WORKERS – June 12, 2020
For Immediate Release – UFCW LOCAL 7 STANDS IN SOLIDARITY WITH THE PEACEFUL PROTESTORS AND DEMANDS JUSTICE AND EQUALITY FOR ALL AMERICANS – June 2, 2020
For Immediate Release – ANOTHER KROGER GROCERY WORKER DIES FROM COVID-19, YET KROGER REFUSES TO IMPROVE STORE SAFETY MEASURES AND CUTS HERO PAY – May 17, 2020
For Immediate Release – UNION LOSES ANOTHER MEMBER TO COVID-19 FROM JBS PLANT IN GREELEY, COLORADO – May 17, 2020
For Immediate Release – KROGER DISREGARDS DANGERS ESSENTIAL GROCERY WORKERS FACE. STRIPS ‘HERO PAY’ AS COVID-19 CONTINUES TO SPREAD & KROGER’S PROFITS SOAR – May 15, 2020
For Immediate Release – UFCW 7 THANKS ALBERTSONS AND SAFEWAY STORES FOR EXTENDING HERO PAY FOR ESSENTIAL GROCERY WORKERS – May 15, 2020
For Immediate Release – KROGER CEO RECEIVES 21% COMPENSATION INCREASE, WHILE GROCER ENDS $2/HR BONUS FOR FRONTLINE
ESSENTIAL WORKERS – May 13, 2020 
For Immediate Release – GROCERY STORE UNIONS CALL ON KROGER TO CEASE PLANS TO CUT HERO PAY FOR ESSENTIAL WORKERS, IMPROVE SAFETY IN STORES – May 7 2020
 For Immediate Release – ANOTHER JBS PLANT WORKER IN GREELEY, COLORADO LOST TO COVID-19; TOTAL OF 280 POSITIVE CASES – May 6, 2020
For Immediate Release – ON INTERNATIONAL WORKERS’ DAY, UFCW LOCAL 7 STANDS WITH UNREPRESENTED GROCERY WORKERS
DURING THE MAY DAY STRIKE – May 1, 2020
For Immediate Release – UNION LOSES ANOTHER MEMBER TO COVID-19, AS POSITIVE CASES DOUBLE AT THE GREELEY JBS PLANT – April 30, 2020
For Immediate Release – UFCW LOCAL 7 OF COLORADO: PRESIDENT TRUMP’S EXECUTIVE ORDER WON’T PROTECT THE FOOD SUPPLY CHAIN IF IT DOESN’T PROTECT WORKERS – April 28, 2020
For Immediate Release – ANOTHER LOCAL 7 MEMBER DIES TODAY AS JBS THREATENS LEGAL ACTION AGAINST UNION FOR ENSURING SAFETY OF ITS WORKERS AT GREELEY PLANT- April 26, 2020  
For Immediate Release – UFCW LOCAL 7 ESTABLISHES ONE MILLION DOLLARS ($1,000,000.00) COVID-19 EMERGENCY HARDSHIP FUND – March 24, 2020