Friction between Colorado grocery-worker union officials and their national leadership could once again derail or delay a strike during the crucial holiday shopping period.
Washington, D.C.-based United Food and Commercial Workers International continued Monday to withhold its authorization for members of UFCW Local 7 in Colorado to go on strike.
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The union's tiff mirrors the previous round of contract negotiations in 2004, when UFCW's national leadership intervened to interrupt a local strike vote in November.