I would be happy to send something into the record. My concern is this, if a store changes its hours, reduces its open hours, staff's schedules are changed, they are reduced from 36 hours to 20 hours, but they are told they need to stay…
Ben Ray Luján
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Ben Ray Luján is an American politician serving as the junior United States senator from New Mexico since January 3, 2021. A member of the Democratic Party, he previously represented New Mexico's 3rd congressional district in the U.S. House of Representatives from 2009 to 2021. Luján has focused on various issues during his tenure, including economic development, healthcare, and tribal food security, advocating for policies that support New Mexico's diverse communities.
I certainly hope that we can find that way back, because a lot of folks support Starbucks because the employees were treated well.
What concerns me is practices that have been shared with me where a reduction in hours, where an employee maybe once worked full time, 36 hours or so, but then hours were changed at that property for whatever reasons.
I understand that Starbucks has a widespread pattern of reducing worker hours in stores that have unionized.
Investing in tribal energy is not just about energy; it's about economic opportunity.
I certainly hope that we can find that way back, because a lot of folks support Starbucks because the employees were treated well.
Most technology that we now benefit from, all the way from GPS to other areas, were developed by Federal agencies through the use of an investment and then private entities were able to do much more with commercializing or finding those…
I am very concerned about the lack of basic utilities for too many brothers and sisters across the Country.
I venture to say there is more than 16,800 homes on the Navajo Nation that don't have electricity.
The National Labor Relations Board requires an employer and the union to bargain in good faith about wages, hours, and other terms of employment until they agree on a labor contract, not after.
I have had a terrible time also trying to get accurate data on the number of tribal homes that don't have electricity or don't have broadband.





