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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After three stores in Buffalo held elections, the process has snowballed, with more than a dozen more stores across the country filing to hold elections.
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A Starbucks location in Eugene was the first in Oregon to file a union petition with the National Labor Relations Board last week, the first step toward a unionization vote.
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The National Labor Relations Board announced Monday that it had certified a victory for a union at a second Starbucks store in the Buffalo area, where votes were tallied in December but remained inconclusive as the union challenged the ballots of several employees it said did not work at the store.
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Workers at a Starbucks in Cleveland banded together and petitioned the National Labor Relation Board (NLRB) for unionization, pushing to become the coffee chain's first union store in Ohio, according to Starbucks Workers United union.
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The actions of Jan. 6 2021 were a result of ill-informed and misguided individuals listening to a dictator and his cronies, who till today, continue to spread lies about the election and attack America’s democracy.
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Starbucks Corp. workers in Chicago and Colorado are seeking to unionize two more stores, bringing organized labor’s push to organize the coffee giant to two new metropolitan areas after a major win in New York state.
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