{"id":305140,"date":"2026-05-08T00:29:43","date_gmt":"2026-05-08T00:29:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/305140\/"},"modified":"2026-05-08T00:29:43","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T00:29:43","slug":"bakersfield-starbucks-workers-vote-to-unionize-joining-national-movement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/305140\/","title":{"rendered":"Bakersfield Starbucks workers vote to unionize, joining national movement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KERO) \u2014 Baristas at the Bakersfield Starbucks on Niles and Shalimar voted Wednesday to unionize.<\/p>\n<p>Workers say they want better staffing and safer working conditions. They also want to secure their benefits and increase their take-home pay.<\/p>\n<p>The location is the 63rd Starbucks in California to join the union. Nationwide, more than 12,000 workers have organized.<\/p>\n<p>The Bakersfield baristas are now calling on the coffee giant to finalize a fair contract.<\/p>\n<p>This story was reported on-air by a journalist and has been converted to this platform with the assistance of AI. Our editorial team verifies all reporting on all platforms for fairness and accuracy.<\/p>\n<p>Stay in Touch with Us Anytime, Anywhere:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KERO) \u2014 Baristas at the Bakersfield Starbucks on Niles and Shalimar voted Wednesday to unionize. Workers&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":305141,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,155,153,152,128539,128540,162,128541,128542,128543,128544,128545],"class_list":["post-305140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield-downtown","tag-bakersfield-headlines","tag-bakersfield-news","tag-bakersfield-starbucks","tag-california-starbucks-union","tag-kern-county-news","tag-starbucks-baristas","tag-starbucks-contract","tag-starbucks-union","tag-starbucks-workers-unionize","tag-workers-united"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305140","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=305140"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305140\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/305141"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=305140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=305140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=305140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}