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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NYC nail salon workers and activists gathered Thursday for a rally in Zuccotti Park to call for drastic changes to an industry that many argue is broken.
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Workers at a Starbucks in Cottonwood Heights announced their plans Thursday to form a labor union. If successful, they would become the first Starbucks store in Utah to unionize.
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As company continues union-busting tactics, employees strike in Olympia and another store in Seattle files to unionize
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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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