GILBERT – Today, Senator Ruben Gallego (D-AZ) joined Starbucks union baristas and community allies on the picket line in Gilbert, AZ in solidarity with their ongoing, open-ended unfair labor practice strike protesting Starbucks’ historic union busting and failure to finalize a fair union contract. The Red Cup Rebellion, launched on November 13, has now grown to 3,800 baristas in 180+ stores across 130+ cities—the longest nationwide ULP strike in Starbucks history.   Read what Senator Gallego shared with striking workers at the picket line below: “Think about how ridiculous this is. They shut down a Starbucks because they’re afraid of working class people getting a decent wage

Senators to Trump: “The commutation of David Gentile’s sentence is legally indefensible, morally reprehensible, and a crushing blow to the thousands of victims whose lives he destroyed.” “They will not forget that when they needed their government to stand with them against the man who stole their futures, their President chose to stand with the criminal instead.” WASHINGTON – Today, Senators Ruben Gallego (D-AZ), Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY), Jack Reed (D-RI), Adam Schiff (D-CA), Catherine Cortez Masto (D-NV), Tammy Duckworth (D-IL), Peter Welch (D-VT), Richard Blumenthal (D-CT), and Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) demanded answers from President Donald Trump over his decision to commute the sentence of convicted fraudster David Gentile

Last Week, Donald Trump Removed MLK Day and Juneteenth from List of Fee-Free Days, Included His Birthday Instead WASHINGTON – Senator Ruben Gallego (D-AZ) backs the Encouraging Public Service in Our National Parks and Public Land Act to codify six days where visitors to National Parks and other federal lands can enter free-of-charge. This legislation would direct the Secretary of the Interior to officially designate Martin Luther King, Jr.’s Birthday, the first day of National Park Week, Juneteenth, Great American Outdoors Day, National Public Lands Day, and Veterans Day as fee-free entry days. “Cutting two national holidays, when many families are already off of work and school,