Category: SBUX

FEP Sues Starbucks for Tying Executive Pay to Racist Hiring Goals

FEP Sues Starbucks for Tying Executive Pay to Racist Hiring Goals

Media Mention /
Over the last few years, our Free Enterprise Project (FEP) representatives have warned dozens of corporations that their Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) policies are racist -- and very likely illegal. Some companies have heard us, but many others have ...
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The Left, Simplified – an Interview with Scott Shepard

The Left, Simplified – an Interview with Scott Shepard

Free Enterprise Project /
Free Enterprise Project Director Scott Shepard appears on Blunt Force Truth to discuss the National Center’s lawsuit against Starbucks for racist hiring policies, the push to ban gas-powered vehicles, and more. Listen to the full interview below: ...
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Starbucks at Center of Lawsuit for Racist Civil Rights Violations

Starbucks at Center of Lawsuit for Racist Civil Rights Violations

Press Release /
Washington, DC – The American Civil Rights Project (the “ACR Project”) filed suit in Spokane, Washington yesterday against beverage giant Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz and the company’s officers and directors. The suit was filed on behalf of the National Center ...
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Diversity DEI discrimination

Corporations Pay Employees to Discriminate Based on Race… And That’s Illegal

FEP Commentary /
A series of shareholder demands predicate to lawsuits, and now some lawsuits themselves are forcing some notably bad-actor corporations away from the unquestionably illegal policy of discriminating on the bases of race, sex and orientation in the name of equity ...
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NCPPR Files Suit Against Starbucks for Racist Civil Rights Violations

NCPPR Files Suit Against Starbucks for Racist Civil Rights Violations

Press Release /
Yesterday the American Civil Rights Project (the “ACR Project”) filed suit in Spokane, Washington against beverage giant Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz and the company’s officers and directors. The suit was filed on behalf of the National Center for Public Policy ...
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The Chickens of 'Woke' Are Coming Home to Roost on Business Heads

The Chickens of ‘Woke’ Are Coming Home to Roost on Business Heads

FEP Commentary /
The chickens of wokeness are coming home to roost on the heads of the business leaders who have done so much to unleash this plague upon us. There’s a better, and less cliché-ridden, way to frame that. Have you seen A ...
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corporate elites

Corporate Elites Don’t Recognize Shareholders As Owners

Free Enterprise Project Commentaries /
Every American has experienced miserable customer service from our corporate overlords, but that cold shoulder is a warm hug compared to how corporations cheat and deceive their own owners — the shareholders. As a conservative shareholder activist for the Free ...
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Is the Woke Corporate 'Worm' Finally Turning?

Is the Woke Corporate ‘Worm’ Finally Turning?

Free Enterprise Project Commentaries /
More than a few executives appear to be glimpsing the high costs of politicized corporate management. A chief driver of these revelations is surely the rolling market correction that has characterized 2022. At one point last week, the Nasdaq was ...
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Unionization In the Time of Automation

Unionization In the Time of Automation

Free Enterprise Project Commentaries /
Unions have recently won organizational votes at New York City-area branches of Starbucks and Amazon, companies they have been trying to crack into for years. There is good reason to think that workers enticed into voting for unions in the 2020s will ...
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'Equity'-Based Discrimination At a Retailer Near You

‘Equity’-Based Discrimination At a Retailer Near You

Free Enterprise Project Commentaries /
Corporate America’s panicked embrace of “equity” in the summer of 2020 isn’t going to end well for anyone, most particularly the companies that have embraced it the hardest. This shouldn’t be a surprise. After all, what “equity” means – according to its ...
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