Billionaire Howard Schultz, the anti-union architect of Starbucks, will testify today on allegations that the company has been breaking labor laws — and Sen. Bernie Sanders, a mascot of the union movement, will question him.
Former Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz testifies before the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee on Capitol Hill on March 29, 2023It was a hearing for the history books: Billionaire Howard Schultz, the resolutely anti-union architect of Starbucks, faced Sen. Bernie Sanders, the outspoken champion of the union movement in Congress.
As the Senate hearing began, a long queue of managers and corporate employees crowded inside, wearing matching t-shirts — as did dozens of Starbucks Workers United members. Federal labor officials have issued scores of complaints against the coffee giant. Administrative law judges have found Starbucks violated labor laws in at least eight of those cases so far, which the company is appealing. Some rulings have ordered Starbucks to reinstate fired workers and issue them back-pay.
On Wednesday, noting that the first group of Starbucks workers to win union elections have been waiting more than 460 days to negotiate a first contract, Sanders pressed Schultz to promise that Starbucks would exchange proposals with the union within 14 days of the hearing. "I grew up in federally subsidized housing. My parents never owned a home. I came from nothing," he said emphatically."Yes I have billions of dollars. I earned it. No one gave it to me. And I've shared it constantly with people of Starbucks. And so anyone who keeps labeling this billionaire thing--"
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