Safeway workers are striking at the same time as contract negotiations between workers and King Soopers are coming to a head. The union is negotiating with King Soopers and parent Kroger after a strike in February. That strike lasted almost two weeks before a deal was reached to pause the labor action for 100 days. That pause expired last month.

About 7,000 members of the United Food and Commercial Workers Local 7 working at Safeway and Albertsons grocery stores across Colorado could go on strike as soon as Sunday to protest