DENVER — Workers for two of Colorado's grocery giants could go on strike by Monday.

According to United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW) Local 7 , 99% of Safeway employees across the Denver metro area voted to authorize a strike unless Albertsons, the grocer's parent company, responds to the union’s demands.

"They're not paying a liveable wage. They don't want to fully fund health care and pension while they're making profit on high grocery prices with less service," Kim Cordova, president of UFCW Local 7, said in a Facebook video released Friday.

UFCW Local 7 said it has spent nine months negotiating a new collective bargaining agreement with Safeway after the previous one expired in January. In a statement, a spokesperson for Safeway said the company is "negotiating in good fait

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