Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz donates $30m to U.S. troops to help fund study into PTSD...

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Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz donates $30m to U.S. troops to help fund study into PTSD as they leave Afghanistan

By Sara Malm

PUBLISHED: 05:18 EST, 20 March 2014 | UPDATED: 13:19 EST, 20 March 2014



The CEO of global coffee chain Starbucks is donating $30million to benefit the rehabilitation of U.S. war veterans.

Howard Schultz’s contribution has been earmarked for research into brain trauma and PTSD suffered by thousands of returning soldiers.

This follows Shultz promise last year to hire at least 10,000 veterans and military spouses over the next five years.

Mr Schultz also criticised the U.S. government saying they do a better job of sending people to war than bringing them back from the front line.

‘These young men and women who are coming home from multiple deployments are not coming home to a parade,’ he told CBS News.

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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2585082/Starbucks-CEO-Howard-Schultz-donates-30m-U-S-troops-help-fund-study-PTSD-leave-Afghanistan.html

[randome]

1. Hell, he just wants to sell more coffee!

And:
[hr][font color="blue"][center]There is nothing you can't do if you put your mind to it.
Nothing.[/center][/font][hr]

[PowerToThePeople]

2. The Skinny on Starbucks (spoiler, Union busting 1% puke)

In 2004, faced with the first serious effort in decades to unionize one of its stores, Starbucks launched what a former worker calls “a scorched-earth campaign” against pro-union employees. The effort resulted in more than a dozen violations of the National Labor Relations Act, a judge found in an 88-page ruling last year. “The union busting has just been absolutely relentless,” says the worker, Daniel Gross, who set out to organize the company’s store on the east side of midtown Manhattan before Starbucks fired him in 2006.

Gross and other workers, unhappy with the refusal of the Manhattan store to guarantee any full-time shifts, had planned to vote on whether to be represented by the Industrial Workers of the World. As the election neared, Starbucks brought in a manager, Fabian Vera, whose only job was to oppose the union, Gross says. Vera took workers on walks around the block to assess their positions and argue his case. Three pro-union workers were discriminatorily fired at three New York stores, the labor judge later ruled, while anti-union workers were rewarded with free gym passes and Mets tickets. In recent years Starbucks has settled five labor complaints in connection with similar practices in New York City, the Twin Cities, and Grand Rapids, Michigan. “This is not a few bad apples,” Gross says. “This is a company really undermining the right to organize.”

http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2009/04/are-starbucks-and-whole-foods-union-busting

[malaise]

3. Very cool

Rec

[Jefferson23]

4. A significant number of those who have children need funds to help them deal with

the parent who comes home suffering from PTSD.

K&R, good for him.

[Scuba]

5. Thanks. Now can somebody pony up a few bucks to help stop the next war?

[UTUSN]

6. R#7 for 2 out of 3: This/PTSD + banning the GunNuts. Anti-union? n/t