workers have a right to join a union.
the National Labor Relations Board, NLRB, has filed over 80 complaints against Starbucks for violating Federal labor law...
strong unions are a vital part of rebuilding the declining middle class in this country.
The fundamental issue we are confronting today is whether we have a system of justice that applies to all or whether bil...
It is a bedrock of our democracy that the law applies to everyone, including the most powerful.
These workers know, as I do, that union workers earn 20 percent more on average than nonunion workers.
I commend the Committee for holding this hearing to show that you take seriously the rights of Starbucks workers to orga...
Starbucks has refused to sign a single first contract with the union.
Today in our Country, over 60 percent of our people are living paycheck to paycheck and millions are working for starvat...
As a result of that economic reality, what we are now seeing is a major increase in trade union organizing.
Starbucks has waged the most aggressive and illegal union busting campaign in the modern history of our Country.
Unless we change the nature of the way our economy works, it is all too likely that our younger generation will have a l...
At a time when 71 percent of the American people now approve of unions, the highest level since 1965, there has been a m...
Let us be clear, Starbucks egregious union busting campaign is not limited to Buffalo.
But even if he is a multi-billionaire and the head of a giant corporation, he is not entitled to break the law.
Today in America, we have more income and wealth inequality than we have ever had.
I believe that labor unions play an important role in protecting that bedrock principle.
