Howard Schultz's Annoyance with Billionaire Label and Political Controversy

Former Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz, worth $3.7 billion, was offended when he was referred to as a billionaire during a Senate hearing on Wednesday. The Senate committee was investigating Starbucks' treatment of unionized employees. Schultz maintained that Starbucks has never broken labor laws and that working at the coffee chain is "the best first job in America." The hearing came after a court ruling in New York on March 1, which found that Starbucks had violated labor laws by illegally monitoring and firing workers in Buffalo and preventing them from unionizing.