My niece is getting ready to go picket for her first ever strike this week
She works for King Soopers out here near Denver. She is 20 and this is her first real job, been there for almost a year.
Part of the story here:
Tensions Rise As King Soopers Employees Prepare To Strike
The president of the United Food and Commercial Workers Union Local 7, Kim Cordova, says King Soopers stores across the Denver metro area will strike Wednesday morning. Cordova says the likelihood that more King Soopers/City Market stores will do the same once contracts expire is high.
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Cordova said people can expect to see picket lines at stores across the Denver metro area beginning at 5 a.m. Wednesday.
Customers have already noticed certain products are out of stock due to what King Soopers calls a change in buyer habits. It’s hiring temporary workers as part of a contingency plan to avoid disruptions due to the strike, but with so many other grocery options on top of a labor shortage, Duber-Smith believes that will be difficult.
“I think King Soopers is going to be hard pressed to find the temporary workers even at 18 bucks an hour to be able to fill the positions which means there’s certain things that are going to suffer, and I think customer service is one of the first things to go.”
The strike will involve around 8,400 workers at 74 stores. While not all will see picket lines, the ones with contracts set to expire Saturday include Denver, Boulder, Broomfield, Parker and Colorado Springs. Picket lines could occur at stores between those locations.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/news/tensions-rise-as-king-soopers-employees-prepare-to-strike/ar-AASzAh2?ocid=msedgntp
Now... Store management has been hammering out in little 'innocent comments' about how bad this could be for the store. Heh... The word from my niece and her friends from works is pretty much... Fuck them, they should have negotiated in good faith, pay us what we deserve and give us fucking safe conditions in a fucking pandemic.
I'm so proud 
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We walked the line for about a month about some 20 years ago here in St.Louis, MO. My store was in a very working class part of the city and generally folks were very, very supportive of us. Customers brought us water, food and honked as they past waving. The St. Louis Fire Department was just down the street and they would always honk their big horn every time they went by and that was often as it was a busy station.
The clowns they hired as strike replacements were comical and stole them blind. The managers and office staff they used were generally supportive of us, but couldn't actually say so above a whisper.
Hope that it goes well for her and it is a short job action.
Union Strong! 
