More than eight thousand workers at King Soopers and City Market stores across Colorado are still on strike. It is week two of a strike provoked by what the United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW) Local 7, which represents 17,000 grocery workers in Colorado and Wyoming, alleges are a spate of unfair labor practices (ULPs), ranging from a failure to share data necessary for bargaining, to the company dealing directly with members during bargaining, to a larger issue of the multibillion-dollar corporation violating the union contract by moving to replace protected positions with lower-wage independent contractors, employed through platforms like Instacart.

Kroger, which owns the Colorado stores and is the largest grocery chain in the United States, is still at the bargaining table with the UFCW. The two sides are negotiating a new contract following the expiration of the prior one on January 8, and it is not going well.

“After four continuous days of negotiations, we’ve made little to no progress with Kroger/King Soopers,” said UFCW Local 7 president Kim Cordova in a statement on Monday. “They still refuse to address the concerns and needs of our members, who have raised their voices on the picket lines, in the media, and around the bargaining table to demand a living wage for essential labor.”