{"id":24971,"date":"2025-10-27T04:28:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-27T04:28:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/24971\/"},"modified":"2025-10-27T04:28:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-27T04:28:07","slug":"starbucks-workers-rally-in-oakland-as-union-baristas-vote-on-whether-to-authorize-strike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/24971\/","title":{"rendered":"Starbucks workers rally in Oakland as union baristas vote on whether to authorize strike"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">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=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">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=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\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>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">This event was part of a national wave of pickets, with around 70 planned across 60 cities.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Download the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/mobile-apps\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:FREE WPXI News app;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">FREE WPXI News app<\/a> for breaking news alerts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Follow Channel 11 News on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/wpxi\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Facebook;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Facebook<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WPXI\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Twitter;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Twitter<\/a>. | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/video\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Watch WPXI NOW;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Watch WPXI NOW<\/a><\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Starbucks workers in Pittsburgh\u2019s Oakland neighborhood rallied for a contract on Sunday as union baristas voted on whether&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":24972,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[19234,143,145,19233,144,3989,19116],"class_list":{"0":"post-24971","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-oakland","8":"tag-kye-neilsen","9":"tag-oakland","10":"tag-oakland-headlines","11":"tag-oakland-neighborhood","12":"tag-oakland-news","13":"tag-starbucks","14":"tag-starbucks-workers-united"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24971","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=24971"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24971\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24972"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}