In a hilariously ironic twist, Starbucks, one of the absolute most liberal corporations on the planet, is now urging the National Labor Relations Board to stop using mail-in union elections at stores located in the United States after allegations have surfaced of improper coordination between board officials and the union.
According to the Daily Wire, the request was part of a letter that the company sent out to the NLRB on Monday. Given what many folks allege happened back during the 2020 election, this is seriously a gut buster. I laughed so hard reading this that everyone around me probably thought I’d pulled a Biden and lost my marbles.
“The purpose of this misconduct was to tip-the-scale in order to deliver the outcome sought by the Union,” Starbucks wrote in the letter. “The result of the misconduct was to ignore—and bypass—the actual sentiments that Starbucks partners may have expressed in properly conducted elections.”
Oh man, that’s rich.
Look, the real truth is, whether or not you are one of those folks who believe certain things transpired during the last presidential election, the bottom line is that mail-in voting does present a bit of a problem whenever it is being used. It is far more susceptible to instances of manipulation than casting a ballot in person.
Just a fact that folks need to swallow, as inconvenient as it is for left-wingers to do so, given their love of anti-Trump narratives.
The allegations in this particular Starbucks thing involve a vote at an Overland Park, Kansas store where the workers voted 6-1 in favor of becoming unionized. A total of seven extra ballots have been disputed, which could end up stopping things dead in their tracks. Read more