Republican Senator Stuns Starbucks CEO (And Me) By Defending Workers
During a Senate HELP committee hearing on Starbucks’s unprecedented union-busing activity, Indiana Republican Senator Mike Braun stunned everyone with a comment he made while talking with Starbucks (now former) CEO Howard Schultz.
My livestream of the hearing: https://www.youtube.com/live/gttTTBDV...
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Sources:
https://bit.ly/3ZsRwmT (Howard Schultz brags about average pay of $17.50 an hour)
https://bit.ly/3TVV3ZR (Republican Senator Mike Braun: Any large corporation shouldn't be bragging about $15-$20/hr wages)
https://bit.ly/3U90wN3 (Bernie Sanders says Starbucks can afford to give baristas $5K bonus)
https://bit.ly/42NZ72f (Starbucks Commits $1 Billion in Fiscal Year 2022 Investments)
https://cnb.cx/40ryyOM (Starbucks to hike wages, double training for workers as CEO Schultz tries to head off union push, CNBC)
https://bit.ly/40qKujM (As union membership declines, income inequality increases, EPI)
https://bit.ly/40Po4bP (Hickenlooper with the graph)