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Yaaay! More Carlvin + Stomps! Booooo! I had to then bone up on their part in the HB2 imbroglio.
Yay! Thanks Carlvin and Stomps website, I discovered how many companies are lobbying Pat McCrory and friends to repeal HB2. I don’t know if I would have searched this out on my own. Wow, there’s a lot of big names there. Sure you want to piss them all off? When was the last time you saw Northrop Grumman, Facebook, Starbucks, and IBM agree on anything? Thanks again, Carlvin and Stomps!
Lionnsgate, A+E network, Fox, PepsiCo, Hyatt, Reddit, Ingersoll-Rand, The Dow Chemical Company, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Smiles by Payet Family Dentistry, Northrop Grumman, Barnes and Noble, Sivan Capri Agency, Ralph Lauren, American Apparel, Qualcomm, Twilio, Udacity, Choice Hotels International, Pandora Media, EMC Corporation, NBA, Bank of America, Wells Fargo, American Airlines, Lowe’s Cos., Facebook, Google, Box, Salesforce, Levi Strauss & Co., Encore Music Publishers, Airbnb, Apple, Red Hat, Citrix, Square, Twitter, Lyft, Pfizer Inc., LinkedIn, Glassdoor, Dropbox, YouTube, Starbucks, Citibank, TD Bank, Hilton, Starwood, Accenture, Kellogg’s, Uber, Tumblr, Gogobot, Intel, Yahoo, Orbitz.com, CheapTickets.com, Gilt, Replacements, Ltd., Zynga, Jawbone, Braintree, Matrix Partners, Cisco Systems, The PNC Financial Services Group, Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance, Oracle, Whole Foods Market, InterContinental Hotels Group, Kimpton Hotels & Restaurants, LabCorp, BD, Thermo Fisher Scientific, Inc., Dr. Bronner’s, Herbalife, IBM, Biogen, Miramax, PayPal, Pinterest, Marriott International, Microsoft, Yelp, on and on…
Read the letter they all signed here:
http://hrc-assets.s3-website-us-east-1.amazonaws.com//files/assets/resources/NC_CEO_Letter_%283%29.pdf
Who says there’s no solidarity among workers anymore?