This week Teamsters General President Sean M. O’Brien testified at a hearing held by the U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. The committee hearing — “Defending the Right of Workers to Organize Unions Free from Illegal Corporate Union-Busting” — was initiated by HELP Committee Chair Senator Bernie Sanders in response to unlawful anti-union activity at Starbucks, Amazon, and other multi-billion-dollar corporations.

O'Brien called out union-busting corporations and broken labor laws - and pushed back against greedy CEOs in Congress. For Senator Markwayne Mullin, whose net worth is well over $30 million, and all of the Congressional mouthpieces for corporate greed, O'Brien made it clear: when you come after labor, we come after you.

“There are no meaningful consequences for businesses and CEOs like Starbucks and Howard Schultz when they break our labor laws,” O’Brien said. “When any employer — be they rail carriers, package companies, or coffee shops — gets away with repeated abuse of American workers, the legislators who let it happen are complicit in these crimes.”
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