Monday, January 30, 2017

Starbucks CEO Schultz Will Hire 10,000 Refugees In Response To Trump's Executive Order


From McClatchey:
Howard Schultz, the coffee retailer's chairman and CEO, said in a letter to employees Sunday that the hiring would apply to stores worldwide and the effort would start in the United States where the focus would be on hiring immigrants "who have served with U.S. troops as interpreters and support personnel." 
Schultz, a supporter of Hillary Clinton during the presidential run, took aim at other parts of a Trump agenda focused on immigration, repealing former President Barack Obama's health care law and restructuring trade with Mexico. The letter said that Starbucks would help support coffee growers in Mexico, provide health insurance to eligible workers if the health care law is repealed and back an Obama-era immigration program that allows young immigrants who were brought to the country as children to apply for a two-year reprieve from deportation and a work permit.

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

What about hiring the children of American citizens who are desperately seeking a job for themselves?

Starbucks is placing new immigrants at the front of the line in front of children of generational Americans and young adults who are unemployed....?

But at the end of the day, hiring should be based on merit, not categories based on political affinity.

Anonymous said...

https://twitter.com/zerohedge/status/826056721303031809?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

Trump to sign executive order overhauling H1-B visa program



ZeroHedge: Why Cold War between tech CEOs and Trump about to go nuclear

Always On Watch said...

Yet another reason for me to avoid Starbucks. I don't like Starbucks coffee in the first place.

Anonymous said...

A clever trick, kissing ass and his business goodby in the same move.