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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For Starbucks baristas — many of them young and queer — it used to be a point of pride to work for a company with a reputation for taking care of its employees. But some employees say the company's response to their unionization efforts prove otherwise.
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In a rare decision, a labor official has filed an order to force Starbucks to recognize a union in the first store to lose its union election, potentially undoing one of the company’s only wins in the roughly nine months of its workers’ union campaign.
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A National Labor Relations Board official, continuing a harsh denunciation of Starbucks Corp.'s reported efforts to fight unionization of its stores, asked an administrative law judge late last week to order the company to negotiate in good faith with the Starbucks Workers United union for the chain's Camp Road store in Hamburg.
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The National Labor Relations Board is seeking to order Starbucks to recognize a union at a Buffalo-area store where the union lost an initial vote last year.
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Federal labor regulators are seeking a court order to compel Starbucks to reinstate seven fired workers tied to a unionization campaign at a Memphis coffee shop,
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Union drives in Philly's service industry have fizzled before, but this time may be different: Two independent shops are negotiating for their first contracts, and more campaigns are in the works.
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