President Joe Biden followed through on Friday on his vow to veto a Republican-backed measure that would have repealed a U.S. labor board rule treating companies as the employers of many of their contract and franchise workers and requiring them to bargain with those workers' unions.

Starbucks and the National Labor Relations Board, the federal agency charged with protecting workers’ rights, will be battling each other before the Supreme Court Tuesday, in one of numerous cases now pending in which major employers are questioning the NLRB’s powers,

The bill would especially target a provision in the 600-page rule that allows legal and labor union activists to gain access to private farm properties.

President Biden vetoed a bill that would repeal a National Labor Relations Board rule reclassifying franchise workers as employees of their parent companies, such as McDonald’s, Marriott International and Taco Bill.