Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz has agreed to testify before the Senate labor committee after committee chair Sen. Bernie Sanders threatened to subpoena the executive to appear in a hearing on the company’s rampant union-busting later this month.
“The [Health, Education, Labor and Pensions] Committee intends to make clear that in America we must not have a two-tiered justice system in which billionaires and large corporations can break the law with impunity, while working class people are held accountable for their actions,” said Sanders. “I look forward to hearing from Mr. Schultz as to when he intends to end his illegal anti-union activities and begin signing fair first contracts with his unions.
“Starbucks’s strategy is quite clear: it is to stall, stall and stall. They understand that it is cheaper to break the law than to follow it,” SandersThe union has celebrated the news. “We look forward to Howard Schultz testifying in front of the US Senate.
to subpoena Schultz if he didn’t agree to appear before the committee after the company had avoided the request for weeks.
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