Former Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz is set for a showdown with Senator Bernie Sanders and other lawmakers on Wednesday at a congressional hearing focused on allegations of union-busting at the coffee chain.
Sanders, who chairs the Senate's Health, Education, Labor and Pensions committee, has been calling for months for Schultz to publicly respond to worker complaints, even threatening to subpoena Schultz after Starbucks tried toSanders offered a taste of the hearing in its title:"No Company Is Above the Law: The Need to End Illegal Union Busting at Starbucks." Schultz is scheduled to testify at 10 a.m. Wednesday.
Since the first Starbucks store voted to unionize in late 2022, nearly 300 Starbucks stores have taken that step, although none has yet negotiated a collective-bargaining contract and the company has closed some pro-union stores.
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