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| Judge Lets Starbucks Keep Its Race-Based Hiring Quotas |
| 2023-08-13 |
[ZERO] A judge in Washington state has ruled against a conservative group that sued Starbucks over the coffee chain's race-based hiring practices that allegedly "flagrantly" violate various state and federal laws. Chief U.S. District Judge Stanley Bastian on Friday ruled against the National Center for Public Policy Research (NCPPR), dismissing a lawsuit the conservative nonprofit brought against Starbucks over so-called "affirmative action" policies that included awarding contracts to "diverse" suppliers and advertisers and tying executive pay to allegedly racist hiring quotas. In a complaint (pdf) that was filed on Aug. 30, 2022, at the State of Washington Spokane County Superior Court, the nonprofit accused Starbucks of adopting a total of seven policies that between them required Starbucks to actively discriminate based on race in its compensation and employment decisions (including hiring, firing, and promotions), and in its contracting processes with vendors. "Starbucks, acting through its officers and directors, crafted and publicized these policies with fanfare, preening over the supposed moral virtue their adoption signaled," NCPPR wrote in the complaint. "The individual Defendants took these actions despite knowing of a glaring, inconvenient fact: the policies they so trumpeted flagrantly violate a wide array of state and federal civil rights laws," the group continued. The Starbucks policies that are the subject of the lawsuit include the goal of at least 30 percent of its U.S. corporate workforce being black, indigenous, or people of color by 2025 while pegging executive pay to workforce diversity quotas. Related: Starbucks: 2023-08-09 UPS drivers set to receive modest pay raise Starbucks: 2023-07-05 Gunman arrested for Philadelphia mass shooting which left 5 dead is BLM activist who wore women's clothes: sources Starbucks: 2023-06-18 Americans finally wake up to BLM's con, but insiders already cashed in big Related: Affirmative action: 2023-08-09 UNC admissions will bar consideration of race, including in essays, after Supreme Court ruling struck down school's affirmative action policy Affirmative action: 2023-08-06 Judge rules in favor of 7 Massachusetts State Troopers who lost jobs over refusing to get the COVID-19 vaccine Affirmative action: 2023-08-05 'Seattle Mayor looking for a few good police recruits - Vets and White Males need not apply Related: National Center for Public Policy Research: 2018-03-09 Behar's Apology to Pence Should Have Been Public, and Millions Await Co-host Hostin's National Center for Public Policy Research: 2018-01-25 Walgreens to Review Support for Sanctuary City Advocates National Center for Public Policy Research: 2015-04-29 Boeing CEO Refuses To Disclose Clinton Emails |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #4 Well, Washington state. Hopefully the US Supreme Court can overrule this and make clear that the 14th Amendment and the Civil Rights Act of 1964 both prohibit discrimination on the basis of race. |
| Posted by: Tom 2023-08-13 14:12 |
| #3 Coffee is black. Shouldn't the employees be black too? Because Diversity! |
| Posted by: SteveS 2023-08-13 11:34 |
| #2 Starbucks may have crafted a fine corporate policy, but rarely do I see a non-white barrista. If they have implemented a nose ring and neck tattoo criteria, that initiative has been more successful. |
| Posted by: Super Hose 2023-08-13 11:04 |
| #1 You probably knew 'Affirmative Action' wasn't actually dead. It was only napping. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2023-08-13 06:41 |