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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Starbucks Workers United have called on the Memphis community to support a protest of Starbucks after seven employees who were part of a union organizing committee were fired last week.
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Employees at five more Starbucks coffee shops in Virginia — including four in the Richmond region — are seeking to unionize amidst a nationwide campaign to organize labor at one of the country’s biggest retail chains.
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Employees at a Oak Creek Starbucks, 8880 Howell Ave., announced Friday their intention to unionize with Workers United.
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Four Michigan Starbucks stores, including one in Lansing, may unionize. The move comes only two months after workers at a corporate Starbucks in Buffalo, NY voted to join a union.
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Organizing coffee chain outlets one by one succeeds where other attempts have failed
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As we look at our past, we must never forget the individuals, black and white, who sacrificed years, and in some cases, their lives, so that we could enjoy the freedoms that exist in America today.
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