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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Workers at Good Karma Cafe will vote March 31 on whether to form a union, following a petition they filed to the National Labor Relations Board last month.
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Seattle Starbucks Shift Manager Sydney Durkin joins Yahoo Finance Live to discuss the unionization vote win, worker bargaining demands moving forward, and the union outlook as Starbucks undergoes a CEO change.
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Conversations about unionizing began as a joke—not anymore.
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Starbucks located on West Jackson Avenue in Oxford has become the first location in Mississippi to announce plans to unionize as a part of Starbucks Workers United.
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On December 9, Starbucks workers at two stores in Buffalo took an enormous step toward organizing the coffee chain’s labor force when they voted to form a union with Workers United.
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Pennsylvania Joint Board of Workers United, which wants to represent approximately 85 workers, has filed a federal unfair labor practice charge against food service contracting giant Aramark for thwarting at least one employee’s attempts to organize workers.
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