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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Employees of the Starbucks at 1209 N. Charles St., in Midtown-Belvedere, announced their plans to organize last week. In a letter signed by 15 workers and shared on Twitter Jan. 15, they wrote that they "make Starbucks products for less than living wages and receive none of the profit, all the while being offered benefits that in no way equal our efforts."
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Janessa Voyce, a first-year student at University of Oregon, didn’t expect to get involved with a union drive when she started working at the Starbucks at 29th and Willamette in Eugene.
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Employees at a Memphis Starbucks are looking to unionize. They say their campaign will not only help employees, but customers as well.
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Starbucks partners in the Greater Richmond Region submitted petitions to the NLRB seeking union representation by Starbucks Workers United.
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The liberal workers the company has long attracted are expanding a union campaign to other cities after a landmark victory in Buffalo.
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The victory is the same outcome from the previous NLRB hearing decided in October in which the NLRB ruled that as per decades of established labor law, partners at the Starbucks location could have individual store votes on whether or not to join a union.
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