The UFCW Local 7 Union, in Wheat Ridge, posted on social media and said Kroger meat workers voted 100% to authorize an unfair labor union practice strike. Retail workers voted 97% in favor of the strike.

That includes stores throughout Adams, Arapahoe, Broomfield, Denver, Douglas, and Jefferson counties as well as King Soopers stores in the cities of Boulder and Louisville.

Union employees at Pueblo's two King Soopers grocery stores voted Feb. 1 to approve a strike, joining their fellow United Food and Commercial Workers Local 7 members in solidarity in claiming unfair labor practices by the stores' Kroger-owned leadership.

Approximately 10,000 Colorado grocery store workers at 77 stores will begin a two-week strike at 5 a.m. on Thursday.