Middle fingers, complaints: Workers caught in culture wars face harassment
Workers at Target, Anheuser-Busch and Starbucks have been thrust into a political battle over corporate America, experts said. A Target employee in Nebraska found a Business card promoting Christianity placed prominently on the store’s Pride display. A Florida-based Anheuser-Busch salesperson withstood car horns and middle fingers on his delivery route. A Starbucks employee in Wisconsin was allegedly ordered by a manager to remove LGBTQ-friendly decorations. Such incidents -- recounted to ABC News by workers -- have arisen in recent weeks alongside boycotts against corporations over their gestures of support for the LGBTQ community. They underscore what some experts and labor leaders described as the latest rise in workplace tension fueled by a divide that pits consumers against companies. Employees, the workers and experts said, have been thrust into the middle of an increasingly hostile political battle over corporate America. "It’s easy to forget the workers in the culture war...