Biden heads to Las Vegas to showcase $8.2B for rail projects
WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden is heading to Las Vegas to showcase $8.2 billion in funding for 10 major passenger rail projects across the country. The money includes funding to spur work on high-speed, electric train routes that could one day link Nevada and California, as well as Los Angeles and San Francisco. Other train projects getting funding as part of Friday’s announcement are upgrades to heavily traveled corridors in Virginia and North Carolina and improvements to a rail bridge over the Potomac River to bolster passenger service in Washington. The president also plans to address the shooting at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.
Starbucks proposes union talks in 2024
Starbucks says it’s committed to bargaining with its unionized workers and reaching labor agreements next year. The move Friday is major reversal for the coffee chain after two years fighting the unionization of its US stores. Starbucks Chief Partner Officer Sara Kelly wrote a letter to Lynne Fox, the president of the Workers United union. In it, Kelly says the current bargaining impasse between the two sides should not be acceptable to either.
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