
More than 8,000 workers are on strike at 77 Denver area grocery stores
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About 8,000 grocery store workers at 77 King Soopers and City Markets stores in the Denver area are on strike after the union rejected what the company described as its best and final offer to replace a recently expired contract.
The strike started Wednesday morning against the stores, which are part of Kroger (KR), the nation's largest stand-alone grocery retailer.
The number of members of the United Food & Commercial Workers union who are on strike make it the nation's second largest strike of the last two years, behind only a five-week work stoppage by 10,000 auto workers at John Deere & Co. that ended in November.

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