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 at a suburban Milwaukee Starbucks outlet on Friday joined a national wave of union organizing at the Seattle-based coffeehouse chain, citing wages as well as concerns about employee safety, especially during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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A company spokesman said the workers had violated several policies. The union organizing stores accused Starbucks of retaliation.
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Starbucks fired seven workers who were involved in unionizing in Memphis, Tennessee, fueling accusations that the company is retaliating against a growing labor movement at its locations across the United States.
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Seven Starbucks workers were fired at the Starbucks, 3388 Poplar Ave. — located off Poplar and Highland, as of 1:30 p.m. Tuesday, including nearly the entire union organizing committee, according to a news release from Starbucks 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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The company is doing whatever it can to delay elections. “They’re wasting everyone’s time and money,” a lawyer for the union says.
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