When Michelle Eisen told a congressional hearing last year about her experiences working as a barista at a Buffalo Starbucks, she did so without disclosing that she was also a paid activist helping organize the coffee chain’s first unionized shop.
Eisen was reportedly paid nearly $50,000 by the Workers United affiliate of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) for helping in the campaign to organize Starbucks, an effort that to date has succeeded in unionizing more than 330 additional shops since 2010. A spokesman for the union also did not respond to a request for comment.
A spokesman for Rep. Bobby Scott (D-Va.), who was then chairman of the House Education and the Workforce Committee before whom Eisen testified, did not respond to The Epoch Times’ inquiry asking if he was informed of Eisen’s nondisclosure, and if so, what was his response….