Restaurant Worker News

04/26/2025

A labor rights group has alleged that Starbucks sourced coffee from a major Brazilian cooperative whose member farms were cited for keeping workers in slave-like conditions.

04/26/2025

04/26/2025

ICE Can't Erase What Lelo Juarez Built: A photo essay by David Bacon.

Alfredo "Lelo" Juarez, now held in Tacoma, Washington's infamous Northwest Detention Center after being arrested by immigration agents last month, was a teenager when Triqui and Mixtec indigenous workers rose up in the Sakuma fields and labor camps.

As they fought for their union, Sakuma strikers put Lelo to work while he was still a boy.

Because he'd gone to school in Washington he could translate easily back and forth from classroom English to the Spanish of the streets and the indigenous language of his family.

Read the essay: https://labornotes.org/2025/04/ice-cant-erase-what-lelo-juarez-built

04/26/2025

Starbucks union delegates involved in contract bargaining voted to reject the coffee chain's latest proposal that guaranteed annual raises of at least 2%, Workers United said.

04/26/2025

(RICHMOND) – Drivers at Genesis Logistics have voted by an over 90 percent margin to join Teamsters Local 322. The 214 workers deliver to 7-Eleven convenience

04/26/2025

On This Day In History (2020):

"On 26 April 2020, workers at the Amazon fulfilment centre in Shakopee, Minnesota, walked out on strike in protest at a colleague being fired for staying home during the Covid-19 pandemic. Workers claimed that over 50 members of the predominantly Somali workforce participated in the spontaneous work stoppage after the company sacked a worker called Faiza Osman who stayed home in order to protect her two children from the novel coronavirus, despite the fact that Amazon had informed workers they were allowed to stay home. Amazon claimed that fewer than 25 out of 1,000 workers took part. Strikers were also protesting against Amazon's decision to terminate its unlimited unpaid leave policy, despite coronavirus cases being reported at over half of its 110 warehouses. Following the walkout, Osman was reinstated by the company."

04/26/2025

On This Day In History (2024):

The former employees contacted workers rights organization Arise Chicago and filed charges with the Illinois Department of Labor, according to the organization.

04/26/2025

On This Day In History (2024):

04/26/2025

Stater Bros Bargaining Update

This morning, we gave Stater Bros. a counteroffer on their wage proposal, and we expressed that they need to come back to the table with an offer that includes everyone, not just the people at the top wage rate. At the end of the day, they responded with another insulting offer.

Read the full update:
https://ufcw135.com/staterbros-barg-up-6/

04/26/2025

Un día como hoy, el 19 de abril de 2014, Co**ha Liaño, la miembro superviviente más longeva de Mujeres Libres -mujeres revolucionarias durante la Guerra Civil Española- murió en Caracas a los 97 años. Después de la guerra, huyó a Francia y escapó del campo de concentración donde estaba reclusa; luego apoyó la resistencia clandestina contra Franco y eventualmente se mudó a Venezuela.

04/25/2025

(EUGENE, Ore.) – The following is a joint statement from Jeff Padellaro, Director of the Teamsters Brewery, Bakery, and Soft Drink Conference, and Chris Muhs,

04/25/2025

Starbucks Corp. union delegates voted to reject the company’s latest contract proposal, which organizers say falls short by only guaranteeing annual raises of at least 2%.

04/25/2025

BURLINGTON, Vt. (ABC22 FOX44) — Advocacy groups are calling for the release of eight migrant workers arrested at Vermont’s largest dairy farm Monday.  “On April 21, 2025, U.S. Border Pat…

04/25/2025

After a 12-day strike, an Iowa union is declaring victory, saying it achieved the “best ever” collective bargaining agreement for members at the Keurig Dr. Pepper plant in Ottumwa.

04/25/2025

04/25/2025

Worker advocates describe it as an on-farm immigration raid. The Department of Homeland Security disputes that characterization.