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February 21, 2024
Matt Ford
Elon Musk and Amazon Team Up to Try to Demolish Workers’ Rights
A handful of corporations with notoriously bad labor practices are hoping to convince the Supreme Court to gut the National Labor Relations Board.
March 29, 2023
Timothy Noah
Howard Schultz’s Excuse for Union-Busting: I Grew Up in Public Housing!
Starbucks’s ex-CEO tells Bernie Sanders’s committee he loves his workers. Why won’t they love him back?
March 29, 2023
Prem Thakker
Howard Schultz Says It’s “Unfair” to Call Him a Billionaire
The former Starbucks CEO complained people were being mean to him during a Senate hearing about union-busting.
March 29, 2023
Prem Thakker
Howard Schultz Accidentally Admits Starbucks Violated Labor Law on Unions
The former Starbucks CEO appeared before a Senate hearing, during which he confirmed the labor violation.
March 29, 2023
Prem Thakker
Howard Schultz Was Asked Directly if He Threatened Starbucks Workers for Unionizing. He Didn’t Say No.
Senator Bernie Sanders asked the former Starbucks CEO point-blank if he has ever threatened, coerced, or intimidated an employee for supporting a union.
March 20, 2023
Tori Otten
Howard Schultz Will Step Down From Starbucks to Spend Less Time Getting Owned by Union Organizers
His decision to end his third stint running the coffee chain comes days before he is expected to testify before a Senate committee.
March 1, 2023
Prem Thakker
Bernie Sanders Moves to Subpoena Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz for Union-Busting Allegations
Schultz has previously declined invitations to appear before the Senate about the allegations.
December 23, 2022
Rebekah Entralgo
Union Buster of the Year: Howard Schultz
The rapid-fire unionization of Starbucks stores across the country has been a bright spot for labor this year, no thanks to the insane union-busting tactics of greedy Starbucks execs.
May 14, 2022
Jason Linkins
Biden’s Embrace of Unions Is a Boon for Democracy
The White House’s support for labor organizing will become critical if Democrats get locked out of power at the federal level in November.
April 16, 2022
Jason Linkins
Corporate America’s Long Con
Howard Schultz, Starbucks’s returning CEO, says the coffee chain is getting into scammy NFTs. But that’s nothing compared to the scam that corporations have been pulling on workers for decades now.
November 8, 2019
Libby Watson
The Billionaire’s Burden: Running for President
Like many uber-wealthy men before him, Michael Bloomberg labors under the delusion that only he can save us.
March 20, 2019
David Rees
Who Said It: Beto O’Rourke, Howard Schultz, or a Punk Rock Band?
A multiple-choice quiz on some of the great issues of our time
February 1, 2019
Alex Shephard
Howard Schultz Is Democrats’ Chance to Bury Clintonism Forever
Liberals have dismissed the former Starbucks CEO's potential White House bid. They should start taking it seriously.
January 30, 2019
Alex Shephard
Howard Schultz Learned All the Wrong Lessons From His Childhood
Why is the former Starbucks CEO obsessed with the national debt? Because his father fell on hard times.
January 29, 2019
Alex Shephard
Run, Howard, Run!
A failed 2020 bid by the former Starbucks CEO would prove that Americans aren't clamoring for a centrist businessman as president.
April 24, 2015
Danny Vinik
Starbucks Offers More Proof That Obamacare Is Helping the Economy
December 26, 2012
Jonathan Cohn
The Real Fiscal-Cliff Message Starbucks Should Put on Its Coffee Cups
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