Organizing
Employees at Memphis Starbucks say they plan to unionize
Employees at a Memphis Starbucks are looking to unionize. They say their campaign will not only help employees, but customers as well.
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Workers United – SEIU strongly condemns the murder of Shahidul Islam, an organizer who was killed for standing up for the rights of garment workers in Bangladesh.
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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Press Release
First Two Virginia Stores to Join Starbucks Movement
Starbucks partners in the Greater Richmond Region submitted petitions to the NLRB seeking union representation by Starbucks Workers United.
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Organizing
Taking On Starbucks, Inspired by Bernie Sanders
The liberal workers the company has long attracted are expanding a union campaign to other cities after a landmark victory in Buffalo.
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Press Release
NLRB rules again that Starbucks partners can vote at individual stores
The victory is the same outcome from the previous NLRB hearing decided in October in which the NLRB ruled that as per decades of established labor law, partners at the Starbucks location could have individual store votes on whether or not to join a union.
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News
Greg Jaffe wins January Sidney for Moving Account of Union Organizing at a Dollar General Store
Greg Jaffe of the Washington Post wins the January Sidney Award for “The worker revolt comes to a Dollar General in Connecticut,” a deeply reported piece that chronicles a struggle for job security and respect at an outpost of the discount retailer.
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News
This is every Starbucks that is holding a union vote (so far)
After three stores in Buffalo held elections, the process has snowballed, with more than a dozen more stores across the country filing to hold elections.
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