“It is particularly galling that King Soopers is making such false allegations given the Company’s own track record of being caught lying about illegal coordination agreements with its competitor Safeway/Albertsons during the 2022 ULP strike by UFCW Local 7 workers,” said Kim Cordova, President of UFCW Local 7, in a statement.

As thousands of King Soopers union members are on strike after failed negotiations, the grocery giant filed a lawsuit against the union on Friday.

The strike will affect 77 stores in Adams, Arapahoe, Broomfield, Denver, Douglas and Jefferson counties, as well as in Boulder and Louisville.

King Soopers is suing the union representing the workers striking in Colorado, claiming bad-faith negotiating tactics.

With a strike underway in several Front Range communities, King Soopers has sued the labor union that represents thousands of its employee.

On Thursday, workers at 77 King Soopers stores across the Denver metro area started a strike after months of negotiations.

Pueblo King Soopers employees with the United Food and Commercial Workers Local 7 joined a statewide unfair labor practice strike on Feb. 7.

From Speer to the southern 'burbs, we were always excited to find what was in store. But until the picketing ends — no more.