With the clock winding down toward Saturday night's deadline for new contract negotiations, a Colorado union has announced locations where grocery employees are set to walk off the job on Sunday in protest.

The officials of the United Food and Commercial Workers are deliberately isolating different sections of grocery workers to keep a national movement from emerging.

Chronic understaffing at Albertsons and Kroger grocery stores has led to a near unanimous vote to strike in about 105 stores in Colorado – including 100% of the workers at the Salida Safeway store.

Safeway and Albertsons union members voted to strike in several locations across Colorado, including Pueblo, Fountain, and Salida, and more locations in the Front Range are expected to vote over