On Tuesday, Starbucks agreed to have founder and interim CEO Howard Schultz testify before a Senate committee chaired by Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders, ending a weekslong dispute between the left-wing politician and the Seattle-based global coffee giant.
Sanders chairs the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP), and intends to hold hearings on large corporations who in Sanders’s telling routinely violate federal labor law by resisting employees’ efforts to unionize. Starbucks is one of several chains whose stores have been targeted by union campaigns in recent years as service workers demand higher pay and better working conditions. While many Starbucks locations have held successful union votes,
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