Well so much for the Starbucks Apple Crisp Oatmilk Frappuccino.
CNBC headlines: https://www.cnbc.com/2023/10/
Ex-Starbucks CEO Schultz illegally threatened union supporter, NLRB judge rules
The story reports this of the man once seen as a possible independent candidate for president:
“Former Starbucks Corp CEO Howard Schultz violated federal labor law by telling a barista in California who questioned the coffee chain’s response to union organizing to “go work for another company,” a National Labor Relations Board judge has ruled.
Administrative Law Judge Brian Gee in Los Angeles said in a decision issued on Friday that the comment Schultz made during a “listening tour” last year amounted to an illegal threat against the worker, Madison Hall.
Schultz had met with a group of employees from Starbucks locations in Long Beach, California, to discuss concerns about working conditions.
Starbucks in a statement did not comment directly on the finding that Schultz violated the law. The company said it hosted listening sessions across the country last year “to gather input on how best to shape the experiences in our stores.”
Lawyers for Starbucks Workers United, which is organizing the company’s workers and filed a complaint on behalf of Hall, did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Workers at more than 360 Starbucks locations in the U.S., including one in Long Beach, have voted to join unions since late 2021.”
It can surely be said that here is one more liberal mugged to his surprise by liberal policies. Not unlike those liberal mayors who grandly advertised their domains as sanctuary cities and then were horrified as thousands of illegal migrants swarmed their cities? Here is Shultz, once a possible presidential candidate who leans Left, suddenly and clearly taken aback at the realities his company must face if unionized. So surprised that his tart response was literally to tell a union-supporting barista to “go work for another company.”
Ya can’t make this stuff up.
