Five Canada Starbucks Ratify Union Contracts
And more in today's Daily Bread
News and Views
Five unionized Starbucks stores in Canada, represented by the United Steelworkers, have ratified their first contracts.
On Friday, a federal judge in California temporarily halted President Donald Trump’s plans to slash the workforces at federal agencies.
A group of corporations want Attorney General Pam Bondi to direct the NLRB to overturn more than a dozen Biden-era board rulings.
Human Rights Watch has a new report showing rampant human rights violations by gig app companies. “Low wages, algorithmic control and barriers to unionizing trap many workers in economic insecurity, even as multi-billion-dollar companies expand their market share and revenue, Human Rights Watch found.”
In April, United States Trade Representative Jamieson Greer began enforcing the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement’s labor rights provisions again, after a three-month period of uncertainty. On Friday, the agency announced an investigation into collective bargaining rights at Amphenol Optimize in Mexico.
Today’s Win
Starbucks Workers United filed for another union election in Ohio. Over 580 Starbucks locations have now unionized.
Take Action
Federal worker phonebank: The AFL-CIO is mobilizing union members to call federal workers to ask them to join or rejoin their union in the face of unprecedented assaults from the Trump administration.