Fred Meyer and Quality Food Centers workers have voted “overwhelmingly” to authorize their union for a strike in the Kroger subsidiaries, as grocers enter into one of the busiest seasons of the year. Representing over 29,000 essential workers in Oregon and Southwest Washington, members of the United Food and Commercial Workers Local 555 (UFCW 555) “have voted overwhelmingly to authorize their Union Leadership to call for an unfair labor practice strike against Fred Meyer and Quality Food Centers (QFC),” according to a press release on Saturday. Miles Eshaia, a spokesperson for the union, accused the companies of not providing the right hourly wages to workers in certain departments that they’re supposed to be receiving as part of their contracts. “Our position is that [the companies] are failing to pay certain departments the correct amount,” Eshaia told The Oregonian on Sunday. “They’re not giving us the information to prove it, which …