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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsStarbucks union-buster is ironic winner after liberals push nuclear option
I found this while looking for info for this LBN post: http://www.democraticunderground.com/1014940287
http://www.salon.com/2013/11/22/starbucks_union_buster_is_ironic_winner_after_liberals_push_nuclear_option/
With GOP obstruction defeated, attorney who helped Starbucks get away with firing union activists headed to bench
FRIDAY, NOV 22, 2013 10:42 AM CST
JOSH EIDELSON
Barack Obama announces nominees to fill vacancies on the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia, June 4, 2013, including Patricia Ann Millett (R). (Credit: Reuters/Kevin Lamarque)
When Senate Democrats curbed filibusters in a historic Thursday vote, unions were among the major winners. The D.C. Circuit Court, where Republican obstruction has maintained a conservative majority, has repeatedly rejected modest pro-labor moves by the National Labor Relations Board. And restricting filibusters on nominations could pave the way for future senators to rein in filibusters on legislation, which have bedeviled unions labor law reform efforts every time that Democrats controlled both Congress and the presidency. Unions have thus been at the forefront of recent efforts to secure filibuster reforms.
So its ironic that one of the most acute and immediate beneficiaries of those efforts will be Patricia Ann Millett, a woman who helped Starbucks stymie unions. Millett is one of three D.C. Circuit nominees tapped by President Obama and blocked by Republicans; after invoking the so-called nuclear option, the Senate voted 55-43 Thursday to move forward on Millett.
I find it troubling, because Ms. Millett and her firm Akin Gump went well beyond what I consider the bounds of decency and morality in the very aggressive anti-union campaign they really designed and helped Starbucks carry out, Daniel Gross, a founding member of the Starbucks Workers Union, told Salon. The campaign that Ms. Millett and her firm architected and really co-led, and continues to co-lead with Starbucks, involved all of the scorched earth tactics which are starting to come to light more and more. The White House, the AFL-CIO and Starbucks did not provide comment on Milletts Starbucks work in response to Thursday inquiries. Akin Gump declined to comment.
After 11 years as an assistant to the solicitor general at the federal Department of Justice, Millett joined the top-flight firm Akin Gump, whose website describes its Labor Relations Strategic Advice and Counseling practice as including union avoidance and the defense of unfair labor practice charges Milletts clients there included the coffee giant Starbucks, which faced a union campaign by the Starbucks Workers Union, an affiliate of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW, also known as the Wobblies).
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Starbucks union-buster is ironic winner after liberals push nuclear option (Original Post)
Omaha Steve
Nov 2014
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Odin2005
(53,521 posts)1. Complete betrayal.
lunasun
(21,646 posts)2. Now this post related to Starbucks I will rec. !
freshwest
(53,661 posts)3. Didn't the IWW successfully organize Starbucks, Steve? More questions:
Why would the GOP block a union busting attorney?
Was it her blaming the private sector for lack of job growth?
It is their effing fault, holding back on capital in the USA and hiding it overseas until they yank our wages down to dirt.
Although I don't see that happening with the national mood being for the minimum wage increase now... the sane people, that is.
And what the hell is wrong with Schultz?
He is regarded as very progressive and liberal in many quarters and is popular in Seattle.
Omaha Steve
(99,714 posts)4. Kick