{"id":1907057,"date":"2023-03-30T03:26:10","date_gmt":"2023-03-30T07:26:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/senators-question-democrat-ties-to-unions-at-starbucks-labor-practices-hearing\/"},"modified":"2023-03-30T03:29:55","modified_gmt":"2023-03-30T07:29:55","slug":"senators-question-democrat-ties-to-unions-at-starbucks-labor-practices-hearing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/senators-question-democrat-ties-to-unions-at-starbucks-labor-practices-hearing\/","title":{"rendered":"Senators Question Democrat Ties to Unions at Starbucks Labor Practices Hearing"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fsenators-question-democrat-ties-to-unions-at-starbucks-labor-practices-hearing%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1907057&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div class=\"post_content\">\n<div class=\"aplayer_app\" data-source=\"https:\/\/vs1.youmaker.com\/assets\/2023\/0329\/288d6109-e295-4995-952c-60e1f6bd8b57\/audio.mp3?length=2959533&#038;duration=247\"><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-La.) accused the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) of being weaponized against U.S. employers on behalf of unions and the politicians they support during a hearing with testimony from former Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz.<\/p>\n<p>Cassidy, ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, made the remarks during the March 29\u00a0hearing on labor relations at Starbucks, which was held to address allegations of misconduct filed against the coffee chain with the labor relations board.<\/p>\n<p>He acknowledged the claims of misconduct against Starbucks should be investigated, but he also highlighted the board\u2019s credibility crisis due in part to its donations to Democrat lawmakers who aren\u2019t in support of creating more unions.<\/p>\n<p>According to Cassidy, the agency is currently facing four separate allegations of interference by NLRB employees, three of which involve Starbucks. This raises concerns that NLRB employees are using the agency to benefit politically connected labor unions unfairly.<\/p>\n<p>Cassidy emphasized that federal law and NLRB guidelines prohibit such actions by the agency, which include providing duplicate ballots, supplying union organizers with confidential voter information, and providing voter accommodations to employees selected by the union without offering them to all employees.<\/p>\n<p>Schultz vehemently disagreed with accusations made by senators that his company acted illegally, saying that\u00a0the allegations, as cited by the lawmakers and laid out in the HELP committee\u2019s majority staff report, were unproven and untrue.<\/p>\n<p>The former CEO asserted that union negotiations required they meet with stores individually and that they had done so on 80-plus occasions but couldn\u2019t commit to a complete proposal exchange within the 14-day timeline requested by HELP Committee Chairman Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.).<\/p>\n<p>Schultz and Sanders also clashed over accusations that the company is withholding benefits to those unionizing.<\/p>\n<p>The Starbucks founder said on several occasions that it was his understanding it was the company\u2019s legal obligation to not extend some benefits to those involved in union negotiations.<\/p>\n<p>Sen. Mitt Romney (R-Utah) made similar statements to his Republican colleagues, pointing to both the apparent conflict of interest for Democrats and the partisan attack on Schultz, which has pushed Republicans to become an unlikely ally for the outspoken Democratic businessman.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI recognize at the outset that there is some irony to a non-coffee-drinking Mormon conservative defending a Democrat candidate for president in perhaps one of the most liberal companies in America,\u201d Romney stated.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat being said, I also think it\u2019s somewhat rich that you\u2019re being grilled by people who have never had the opportunity to create a single job.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Cassidy called for a bipartisan investigation into the NLRB\u2019s alleged misconduct and weaponization against U.S. employers on behalf of labor unions, as it violates federal law and undermines the NLRB\u2019s mandate to protect the rights of all parties in a labor dispute.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLet\u2019s be clear, workers have the legal right to unionize. Companies cannot break the law to prevent unionization,\u201d Cassidy said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSimilarly, unions should not be allowed to intimidate workers into unionizing through coercion or by banning secret ballot elections, which the Supreme Court has stated are \u2018indeed the preferred\u2019 method to gauge worker support of unionization.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is a conversation that our committee can and will continue to have. But, the bottom line is that a federal agency has no right to break the law to advance a political agenda. That should be something our committee investigates on a bipartisan basis.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Schultz agreed to testify before the committee following the threat of a subpoena from Sanders.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sen. 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