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 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 union members established picket lines at 77 grocery stores throughout the Denver metro area Thursday to protest unfair labor practices. State of play: The labor dispute is expected to last two weeks and affect about 10,

The start of a two-week-long strike by thousands of Colorado King Soopers workers meant people on the picket lines and shoppers either choosing to cross those lines or avoiding King Soopers in favor of other grocery stores.

Some 10,000 grocery store workers are now on strike in Denver and nearby areas, claiming unfair and illegal negotiating practices by the King Soopers store chain

Grocery workers at King Soopers across the Front Range will strike Thursday, the United Food and Commercial Workers Local 7 announced Monday morning.

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.

King Soopers said they were working to file a temporary restraining order as strikes continue throughout Colorado.