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Rep. Donald Norcross, a New Jersey Democrat and longtime member of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, said it is "fundamentally wrong" that Starbucks is allowed to legally discourage organizing under federal labor law.

"That 80% of Americans say we should stop buying Russian oil in the name of defending democracy proves the depth of our support for the Ukrainian people," U.S. Rep. Donald Norcross, D-Camden, said in a statement last week calling on both the state and federal governments to suspend gas taxes.

While "we support our friends in Ukraine in their fight for freedom," he said, "we must also act to protect the pocketbooks of working-and-middle-class families here at home."

During the March 14 event, Grant received several gifts, including a United States flag from the U.S. Capitol Building, proclamations and accolades from Norcross and other elected leaders at the town hall meeting, including State Assemblyman Bill Moen, Camden County Commissioner Louis Cappelli and Bellmawr Mayor Chuck Sauter.

"We see the deaths. We see the heartbroken parents who have lost a child, and it just reconfirms that what we're doing [with these kits] is the right thing," Norcross said.

FIRST IN SHIFT: Members of the House's Labor Caucus are scheduled to meet Wednesday with representatives of the Starbucks unionization effort. Among the expected attendees is Jaz Brisack, the Rhodes scholar and Western New York barista who has become a prominent voice of the organizing push.