Of course, Rand Paul quoted Ayn Rand.
“hundreds of unfair labor practices” and “egregious and widespread misconduct demonstrating a general disregard for the employees’ fundamental rights.”Sanders, who led the panel of 11 Democrats and 10 Republicans, pressed Schultz on the NLRB ruling. Schultz stonewalled throughout, insisting that Starbucks had not broken any laws, that he didn’t know of any retaliatory firings, and that he was forbidden by law from giving raises to the union employees.
More than a few times, the gallery erupted into laughter or groans. After Sanders pressed Schultz as to whether or not he was “aware that NLRB judges have ruled that Starbucks violated federal labor law over 100 times over the past 18 months, far more than any other company in America,” Senator Rand Paul began the Republican questioning by invoking Ayn Rand.“Ayn Rand’s Howard Roark points out the ingratitude that man has for the entrepreneur, the creator.
Republican Mitt Romney lamented that Schultz had to be “grilled by people who have never had the opportunity to create a single job.” In a botched attempt to prove that not being in a union is better than being in one, he pointed out that non-union employees at Starbucks were given a raise while union ones were not—one of the alleged union-busting actions that has Schultz and co. in hot water at the NLRB.The Republican line of inquiry only derailed further from there.
The Republican witnesses fared little better. “Depicting company management as 12-foot diseased rats is dehumanizing and destructive,” star Republic witness and Heritage Foundation research fellow Rachel Greszler testified, referring to the iconic “Scabby the Rat” inflatable that unions use during labor disputes.
For a Republican party that has continued to insist, contra all available evidence, that it is actually a workers’ party, the hearing presented a conundrum. Almost every Republican senator claimed that he “supported unions,” before going on to lavish praise on Schultz, groveling at his intelligence, questioning the National Labor Relations Board, and defending the multibillionaire executive against a litany of alleged lawbreaking.
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