Former Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz and Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., traded barbs at a hearing regarding the coffee company's treatment of union organizing on the 'billionaire moniker.'
Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., presides over a Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday.
In response, Sanders charged Mullin, "You have made more statements in a shorter period of time than I have ever heard." Mullin contended the estimate was "accordingly to public records," but Sanders insisted, "You’re probably looking at some phony right-wing internet stuff. It ain’t true." "You’re not telling the truth," Sanders told Mullin. "Second of all, you’ve got no evidence that I have ever said that all CEOs are corrupt. I have never, ever said that… Furthermore, what this hearing is about is whether or not — you talk about being pro-union — what this hearing is about is whether workers have the constitutional right to form a union.
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