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DENVER—Safeway and Colorado grocery workers are scheduled to head back to the bargaining table to try to reach a new labor contract.
Contracts for Safeway workers represented by United Food and Commercial Workers Local 7 expired May 9, and a contract extension expires Saturday. Talks are scheduled Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday.
UFCW Local 7 represents about 17,000 Colorado workers at Safeway, King Soopers and Albertsons whose contracts all expired the same day. The grocery chains are negotiating separately, but Safeway and King Soopers have agreed that one chain can lock out employees if workers at the other chain go on strike.
Sticking points are pension benefits, wages and a system that pays new employees less than veterans.
