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King Soopers and City Market workers in Colorado will hold strike vote meetings from Jan. 29 to Feb. 1, the union announced on Wednesday.

Union leaders scheduled strike-authorization votes for Jan. 29 and 30 against King Soopers stores in metro Denver.

King Soopers workers in the Denver area will vote on whether to authorize a strike after contract negotiations failed. Votes are scheduled Jan. 29-Feb 1 in the metro area, Colorado Springs, Boulder, Broomfield and Pueblo. The union said specific times and locations for the vote are being given to grocery store workers directly.

This story was originally published on Supermarketnews.

The union that represents King Soopers employees said Friday that after months of negotiations, its contracts with the supermarket chain have expired and votes authorizing a strike could be announced as early as Monday.

The current contract between King Soopers and the United Food & Commercial Workers Union Local 7 (UFCW) expired at midnight on

Together, with potential strikes by Safeway and Costco workers, grocery workers could launch one of the first major labor struggles under the new Trump administration.

Denver-area grocery workers are going to vote next week on whether or not to strike against King Soopers again, the local union representing the workers announced.