Overview
- Breaking Breads, aligned with UAW Local 2179, says more than 30% of roughly 275 employees have signed authorization cards across the bakery’s New York locations.
- Worker demands cite pay, safety and scheduling, along with a pledge to refuse Israel-related projects and a call to end fundraisers or products featuring Israeli symbols.
- Employees point to past initiatives such as heart-shaped challah sales benefiting Magen David Adom that raised over $20,000 and cookies donated to a bake sale that brought in $27,000.
- Breads Bakery responded that it seeks to keep politics out of its workplaces and described the company as inclusive and caring toward staff.
- After the union’s announcement, supporters of the owners lined up at the Upper West Side shop to show solidarity with the bakery.