Outgoing Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz’s political prospects may have dimmed, but his genre of bogus austere responsibility lives on in his party of choice.
By pulling a little more compensation out of his employer for himself and his colleagues via a petition, Prater showed that deliberate, collective action still can help working people.
In a letter to employees on Monday, CEO Howard Schultz said the coffee chain will increase base pay for U.S. employees and managers at company-operated stores by at least 5 percent starting Oct. 3.
Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz has asked his U.S. employees to talk with customers about race relations in a campaign the company calls #RaceTogether -- and many of them aren’t thrilled about it.
The coffee company's chief executive, Howard Schultz, conscripted "countless low wage workers into the austerity army" in asking his Washington, D.C.-area employees to promote the billionaire-backed Fix the Debt campaign by scrawling the words "Come Together" on customers' cups.
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