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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. Striking workers at 77 King Soopers stores in Denver and its suburbs, plus those in nearby Boulder and Louisville, Colorado, urged customers not to cross picket lines that began taking shape before dawn. Stand together. Stay strong, United Food and Commercial Workers International Union Local 7 President Kim Cordova wrote union members in a Monday letter announcing the strike. UFCW Local 7 members voted by 96% last week to authorize the unfair labor practices strike. King Soopers, a chain owned by Kroger, with 121 stores in Colorado and Wyoming, has been negotiating a new contract since October. The current contract expired in January. Stores with striking workers will remain open under a curtailed schedule that starts an hour later and closes two hours earlier than usual each day, King Soopers spokesperson Jessica Trowbridge said by email. Cordova accused the company of flying workers in from out of state to staff stores. Locations in northern and southern Colorado and Cheyenne, Wyoming where workers are not on strike will remain open during their usual hours, Trowbridge wrote. The union alleges King Soopers illegally interrogated and surveilled union members, refused to provide information needed for contract negotiations, threatened union members with discipline for clothes and buttons expressing union support, and insisted on using $8 million in retiree health benefit funds to cover pay increases. King Soopers denies all of the allegations, saying in a statement Friday it has acted in full compliance with the law and its collective bargaining obligations. Management has gone to great lengths to share all relevant data with the union, is committed to fair and lawful negotiations and disputes the union’s claim that it would gut the retiree health benefit funds. “We want to be clear the Unions call for a strike is not about wages, health care, or pensions. It is based on allegations we believe lack merit,” King Soopers President Joe Kelley said in the statement. The strike will force customers to pay higher prices at competing stores and stores with nonunion workers, Kelley added. The strike follows several recent threatened and implemented labor union actions in the U.S. Last week, the Teamsters union and Costco reached a tentative contract agreement to avert a strike. At Utah’s Park City ski resort, the biggest in the U.S., some 200 union ski patrollers ended an almost two-week strike Jan. 9 after reaching an agreement with resort owner Vail Resorts for higher pay including raises for senior ski patrollers. Labor unions have secured other meaningful employer concessions in recent months following strikes by Boeing factory workers, dockworkers at East and Gulf coast ports, video game performers, and hotel and casino workers on the Las Vegas Strip. Mead Gruver, Associated Press
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An intentionally bad “conservative girl” makeup technique is taking the internet by storm. In the wake of the 2024 election and Donald Trump’s inauguration, an unflattering take on Republican womens makeup style has quickly gained traction online. One of the first videos to go viral was posted by TikTok creator Suzanne Lambert back in November. It has since received five million views. In the video Lambert says, “I noticed that all of the Republican girlies in my comments do their makeup the exact same, gorgeous way, so I thought that I would try to do it myself.” @itssuzannelambert Dont miss the surprise at the end! Let me know how i did Redneck Woman – Gretchen Wilson According to Lambert, the “conservative girl” look is defined by thick, clumpy mascara, mismatched and cakey foundation, poorly lined and half-filled lips, and a final touch of smudged, cracked-crayon black eyeliner. “We really want our makeup to cling to any dry spots and accentuate any texture,” Lambert says in the video, which is set to Gretchen Wilson’s song “Redneck Woman.” “It’s giving drained, it’s giving dusty,” she adds. While the look may ruffle some feathers, for others, its spot on. This got uncanny the moment you put on the blush, one person commented. I think this just reverse psychology taught me how to do makeup. The “conservative girl” makeup trend continues to snowball online. Turning myself into a republican in honor of Trump saving TikTok, one creator posted last month, following a similar-style tutorial. Turning myself into my republican self in an alternative universe, posted another. @duhparis Just playin ! #fyp #makeup #makeuptutorial #donaldtrump #tiktok #republican #trump #grwm Redneck Woman – Gretchen Wilson On the surface, its just makeup, but scratch a little deeper and this trend highlights a country divided across generational lines. Exit polls show that 53% of female voters backed former Democratic Vice President Kamala Harris, while 45% supported Republican candidate Donald Trump. Among young women, Harris led by 18 points. If older Republican women wont take political advice from their Gen Z counterparts, maybe they could still take a few makeup tips.
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Roblox shares dropped as much as 20% on Thursday after the gaming company reported disappointing fourth quarter results in bookings and daily active-user figures, creating fear that the growth in the gaming platform is slowing after years of progress. Roblox reported bookings of $1.36 billion for the fourth quarter, missing the expected $1.37 billion that was predicted by analysts polled by LSEG. Daily active users fell to 85.3 million in the fourth quarter, compared with 88.9 million in the third quarter. Hours totaled on the platform also fell in the fourth quarter, to 18.7 billion from 20.7 billion in the previous quarter. The company did report revenue up 32% year-over-year, and a 21% year-over-year growth in bookings. But despite the fact that Roblox is set to achieve its third-consecutive year of around 20% growth in bookings, the gaming platforms fourth quarter report left investors disappointed with its modest projections falling below estimates. Roblox forecasted annual bookings between $5.20 billion and $5.30 billion, with the midpoint slightly below market expectations of $5.27 billion. The company reported a consolidated net loss of $221.1 million in Q4, and a full-year net loss of $940.6 million. As a response to these challenges, the gaming service plans to develop enhancements to its platform and bring them to the market in a timely manner, according to a press release from the company. In the earnings release, CEO David Baszucki said, As we aim to support 10% of the global gaming content market, well continue investing in our virtual economy, app performance, and AI-powered discovery and safety, empowering creators and enhancing the user experience. Roblox said in a letter to shareholders that it expected first-half growth to be stronger than second-half growth. The company noted that it is working diligently on several initiatives that can increase growth in the back half of 2025.
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