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If you breathe air, drink water, get paid overtime, or purchase energy-efficient appliances, your life has been touched by an obscure federal agency that I had the privilege of leading. The Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA) is responsible for reviewing federal regulations before they are published to make sure the administration has accurately…
WASHINGTON—In an often-contentious 4-1/2-hour Senate hearing, Starbucks founder Howard Schultz denied, ducked and stonewalled workers’ reports and National Labor Relations Board findings of the monster coffee chain’s constant, centrally-controlled and nationwide labor law-breaking.
<p>The CEO's reluctance to appear before a Senate Committee was made clear when Senator Bernie Sanders, labor law experts, and Starbucks workers confronted him with allegations that he violated labor laws in seeking to keep the coffee chain union-free. </p>
Starbucks’ ex-CEO tells Bernie Sanders’s committee he loves his workers. Why won’t they love him back?
On Friday, Michigan repealed an 11-year-old law that weakened unions’ power in the workplace. Known as a “right-to-work” law, this type of legislation has been …