On Thursday, workers at 77 King Soopers stores across the Denver metro area started a strike after months of negotiations.

Legal battles continue as the strike at King Soopers locations across Colorado's Front Range near one week. As the strike continues, ripple effects are impacting more than just workers and store earnings;

King Soopers says it's an issue of customer safety. The union says it's an attempt to silence and intimidate picketers.

King Soopers has filed a temporary restraining order against union workers, accusing picketers of harassing customers amid a strike across over 70 Denver metro area grocery stores.

King Soopers asked a Denver judge Tuesday to grant a temporary restraining order against striking union employees that would limit certain picketing activities.

King Soopers files a restraining order against striking workers over harassment claims, amidst a wider labor dispute.

Some 10,000 grocery store workers across the greater Denver area went on strike Thursday, claiming unfair and illegal negotiating practices by King Soopers while their union has been negotiating a new contract with the store chain.

King Soopers is suing the union representing the workers striking in Colorado, claiming bad-faith negotiating tactics.

With a strike underway in several Front Range communities, King Soopers has sued the labor union that represents thousands of its employees.

The union representing striking King Soopers workers has denounced a lawsuit filed by the grocery chain that calls the workers' actions "unsafe." The union said King Soopers was trying to "silence its own workers.