Starbucks condemned for ‘intimidation’ of US union organizers

Bernie Sanders moves to summon chief executive Howard Schultz to Senate committee to explain repeated anti-union violations

Starbucks is under fire over the company's response to unionization efforts as senator Bernie Sanders threatens to call its chief executive before his committee on alleged labor violations and staff petition for it to end intimidation" of organizers.

Sanders, chairman of the Senate health, education, labor and pensions (Help) committee, announced on Wednesday that the committee will be voting on whether to issue a subpoena to compel the Starbucks chief, Howard Schultz, to testify about Starbuck's federal labor law violations, and to authorize a committee investigation into labor-law violations committed by major corporations.