Lawsuit: Union claims King Soopers contract plant workers violate CBA

DENVER — A little more than a year after King Soopers management and the union representing its employees went toe to toe over a new collective bargaining agreement, the parties are once again at odds, with the United Food and Commercial Workers Local 7 alleging in a lawsuit that the grocery chain’s parent company Dillon Cos. LLC brought in outside contract workers to provide services that union members have historically been paid overtime to do. 

The lawsuit, filed this week in U.S. District Court in Denver, claims that “for decades,” UFCW workers have been in charge of managing outdoor plant…