Workers United – SEIU joins the global labor movement in strongly condemning the murder of Shahidul Islam, an organizer who was killed for standing up for the rights of garment workers in Bangladesh. Shahidul was a senior organizer with the Bangladesh Garments and Industrial Workers Federation (BGIWF) and President of BGIWF’s Gazipur district committee. Shahidul was beaten to death in retaliation for supporting workers at the Prince Jacquard Sweater Ltd. factory, where BGIWF had been organizing for the last few months. Workers United – SEIU expresses its deepest sympathies to the family of Shahidul Islam and to our sisters and brothers at BGIWF. We stand in solidarity with these courageous leaders fighting for respect and dignity at work.
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The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) confirmed today that Workers United will be certified as the bargaining representative for partners at the Starbucks Elmwood location.
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Starbucks partners from two Boston area locations filed petitions with the National Labor Relations Board to form a union
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Elmwood Starbucks partners in Buffalo NY have won their union, the first in the U.S.
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Starbucks workers have voted to form their first U.S. union. Workers from one store in Buffalo, N.Y., voted to unionize, in a watershed moment for Starbucks, which operates 8,953 stores in the United States.
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On Thursday, Starbucks workers in Buffalo saw their store become the first company-owned Starbucks to unionize in its 50-year history.
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National Labor Relations Board decides to allow ballot tally in Buffalo, N.Y., to proceed on Thursday
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