Katy Habr is a PhD candidate and Paul F. Lazarsfeld Fellow in Sociology at Columbia University. She studies the political economy of precarious work and labor mobilization, with a particular focus on how economic stagnation, technology, and labor markets impact labor utilization and workplace organization.

June 25, 2025

Analysis

Pay Equity at Kroger

Wage inequality through occupational segregation

After the Southern California supermarket strike of 2003–2004, Kroger Co. and the UFCW compromised on a two-tier provision preserving current employee benefits and pay, but reducing both for new hires. Since then UFCW locals have struggled to reverse the effects…