{"id":24764,"date":"2025-10-27T00:39:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-27T00:39:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/24764\/"},"modified":"2025-10-27T00:39:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-27T00:39:07","slug":"starbucks-workers-rally-in-oakland-as-union-baristas-vote-on-whether-to-authorize-strike-wpxi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/24764\/","title":{"rendered":"Starbucks workers rally in Oakland as union baristas vote on whether to authorize strike \u2013 WPXI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">PITTSBURGH \u2014 Starbucks workers in Pittsburgh\u2019s Oakland neighborhood rallied for a contract on Sunday as union baristas voted on whether to authorize a strike.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">The rally, described as a \u201cpractice picket,\u201d aimed to demonstrate to Starbucks that workers are prepared to strike to secure a contract. <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">\u201cAsking people to show up is always a big ask, so anyone who shows up, we really appreciate,\u201d said Kye Neilsen of Starbucks Workers United. \u201cWe\u2019ve got a lot of allies here, which is really cool, and a lot of union baristas are here, which is great.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">This event was part of a national wave of pickets, with around 70 planned across 60 cities.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Download the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/mobile-apps\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">FREE WPXI News app<\/a> for breaking news alerts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Follow Channel 11 News on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/wpxi\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WPXI\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a>. | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/video\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Watch WPXI NOW<\/a><\/p>\n<p>TOP STORIES FROM CHANNEL 11 NEWS <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph body-copyright\">\u00a92025 Cox Media Group<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PITTSBURGH \u2014 Starbucks workers in Pittsburgh\u2019s Oakland neighborhood rallied for a contract on Sunday as union baristas voted&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":24765,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[19119,19117,4017,845,9726,290,143,145,144,6184,7641,15157,3989,19116,86,19118,2328,4486,4455],"class_list":["post-24764","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-oakland","tag-authorize","tag-baristas","tag-contract","tag-labor","tag-negotiation","tag-neighborhood","tag-oakland","tag-oakland-headlines","tag-oakland-news","tag-pittsburgh","tag-practice","tag-right","tag-starbucks","tag-starbucks-workers-united","tag-strike","tag-unfair","tag-union","tag-vote","tag-worker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24764","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24764"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24764\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24765"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}