Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) announced on March 1 that the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee will vote on issuing a subpoena for Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz.
According to Sanders’s press release, the committee will hold the vote next week on whether they will subpoena Schultz to speak on the company’s potential noncompliance with federal labor law.
The vote could also authorize a committee investigation into the Starbucks corporation’s alleged labor law violations.
Sanders, who is the HELP Committee chairman, asserted that Schultz “must understand that he and his company are not above the law.”
“The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) has filed over 75 complaints against Starbucks for violating federal labor law and there have been over 500 unfair labor practice charges lodged against his company,” Sanders said in the press release. “These violations include the illegal firing of more than a dozen Starbucks workers.”…