significant impact on some of the sentiment we are seeing area let's get some perspective from josh edelson. let's start off here with the national labor relations board. the president has some degree of control on it. just the general sentiment out of the white house and trying to promote an economic agenda that is inclusive of union workers. >> the national labor relations board is the agency created in the new deal to enforce work will -- enforce workplace protections for union as well as nonunion workers. it is the agency that oversees elections to unionize. starbucks has now lost several rounds of this legal fight at the labor board in which each step of the way, starbucks has been arguing that is workers have no right to vote on a store by store basis about whether to unionize. in the buffalo, new york region where workers at several restaurants have petitioned for collective bargaining, starbucks has said if there is going to be a vote, it should involve the workers at all 20 stores in the region and the company should only have to negotiate if a majority of all those workers vote th