Thank You For Honoring Our Picket Line
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Learn about the Unfair Labor Practices King Soopers has engaged in below.
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•Threatening members with discipline, including sending members home from work, for wearing union apparel, including t-shirts, hats, and buttons, while at the same time permitting members to wear shirts, hats, and buttons with all sorts of other messages.
•Interrogating members, including members of the bargaining committee about bargaining. Directly dealing with bargaining committee members. Surveilling worker discussions with union representatives.
•Coercing workers to resign from the union/cross the line.
•Illegally inviting members to resign if they did not like the Company’s offer.
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•Unilaterally increasing wages in some bargaining unit stores and not others in metro Denver.
•Insisting on permissive subjects of bargaining like retiree benefits in their Last, Best, and Final Offer.
•Entering into illegal agreements ahead of the 2022 strike and then lying to the Union to conceal them, undercutting your leverage for the now-expired contract.
•Removing posts from Union bulletin boards.
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•Refusing to provide the Union information, including:
•Information necessary for the Union to make or consider proposals including sales data necessary for staffing proposals and the Company’s Deli Assistant Manager proposal.
•Information about the Company’s policy for discharge or indefinite suspension of workers following an arrest or criminal complaint against the worker.
•Information in response to Union requests during the grievance process, delaying the processing of grievances.
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•For months, King Soopers refused to give us the data on how it determines the number of labor hours for each store – data that is CRITICAL for us to be able to solve the chronic understaffing. Even to this day, King Soopers refuses to give us it’s sales data – which prevents a true staffing analysis.
•Meanwhile, the Company interferes with workers and the Union in the stores, in an attempt to silence your voice and weaken your contract.
“I have worked at King Soopers for 7 years, and we have been in negotiations since October to reach a new contract. Staffing in our stores is at an unsustainable level. Workers are asked to do the job of two or three people leading to bare shelves and long lines. Kroger has prevented us from reaching a contract as a result of their Unfair Labor Practices. The Company has left us no choice other than to call a strike. We hope that this gives us an opportunity to raise our concerns to the public because they have been falling on deaf ears with the employer.”
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