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A strike began today at various King Soopers stores around the Front Range. The strike includes thousands of workers, but King Soopers plans to keep locations open.

Workers at Denver area King Soopers have voted to authorize a strike. The grocery chain says stores will remain open.

Ongoing voting will determine if thousands of grocery store employees will authorize a strike in Colorado.

If workers vote to approve a strike, the walkout will involve more stores and employees than the nine-day strike in 2022. Listen to "Morning Edition" host Michael Lyle, Jr. discuss this story with Colorado Sun reporter Tamara Chuang and then read The Colorado Sun story at the link below.

After a nationwide strike among unionized Kaiser Permanente workers in early October, the union and the health care company have announced a tentative agreement.

The King Soopers strike is emblematic of a broader labor movement sweeping the country, and parts of the Mountain West, as workers walk out for better pay and benefits or unionize to harness their collective power.

Grocery store workers in the Denver area went on strike Wednesday after their union rejected the latest contract offer from a chain of stores owned by Kroger Co., the nation鈥檚 largest traditional grocery store chain.

Janitor Luis Gonzalez smiled a little on Friday when asked how it felt to go on strike. 鈥淚t feels great,鈥� he said, as his fellow janitors at Denver International Airport rallied around him.

A small group of baggage handlers and wheelchair assistants at Denver International Airport have walked off the job to protest what they call unsafe鈥�

Strike organizers timed the action to draw attention to drivers' wage cuts and persistent job insecurity ahead of Uber's IPO on Friday, when the company's valuation may be as high as $91 billion.