After 36 years, management at Kroger grocery stores could be bagging groceries once again. Jesse Russell reports:

The 11,000 members of United Food and Commercial Workers Local 1099 are prepared to walk off the job at midnight on Friday if there is no new movement in contract talks. The union represents workers at Kroger grocery stores in Greater Cincinnati, Dayton, Ohio, and northern Kentucky and are at a stalemate with the company over health care, wages, and pensions. The union is standing strong on a demand for a fully funded pension plan, one of the bigger issues holding up contract negotiations. On Tuesday more than 1,000 UFCW members stood on Fountain Square in Cincinatti and then marched on Kroger’s headquarters. If the workers do walk off the job, the company has said it plans to bring in replacement workers. Kroger has also issued union-busting pamphlets to workers telling them to leave the union if the UFCW calls for a walkout. If they do, the company says, they would keep the same wages and seniority. The last time workers in the region struck at Kroger was in 1971.