{"id":61463,"date":"2025-12-05T03:29:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-05T03:29:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/61463\/"},"modified":"2025-12-05T03:29:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-05T03:29:07","slug":"12-starbucks-strikers-arrested-outside-empire-state-building","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/61463\/","title":{"rendered":"12 Starbucks strikers arrested outside Empire State Building"},"content":{"rendered":"

A dozen Starbucks strikers<\/a> were arrested at a picket line outside the coffee company\u2019s Midtown corporate headquarters Thursday, according to authorities.<\/p>\n

Police responded to the picket line of roughly 80 Starbucks workers\u2019 union strikers outside the Empire State Building around 1:22 p.m., according to the NYPD. <\/p>\n

After repeated commands for the strikers to remove themselves from blocking the doorway, cops arrested 12 people \u2014 6 men, and 6 women \u2014 for disorderly conduct, according to cops and sources. <\/p>\n

A dozen Starbucks strikers were arrested at a picket line outside the coffee company\u2019s Midtown NYC corporate headquarters in the Empire State Building. x\/FightForAUnion<\/p>\n

The union escalated its indefinite strike on Friday to more than 120 stores and 85 cities, demanding higher pay and staffing levels at the coffee chain.<\/p>\n

\u201cUnion baristas are taking action to remind Starbucks executives that wherever Starbucks is, baristas\u2019 picket lines will be there too until the company finalizes a fair contract and ends its union busting,\u201d Starbucks Workers United posted on X.<\/a><\/p>\n

The walkout, set to be the longest strike in Starbucks\u2019 history, began on its Red Cup Day on Nov. 13.<\/p>\n

Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani and Sen. Bernie Sanders joined the striking workers in Brooklyn on Monday. <\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cBecause all of us are united in the belief that we must build in New York where every worker can live a life of decency,\u201d Mamdani said from a picket line outside a Gowanus Starbucks.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The walkout is set to be the longest in Starbucks\u2019 history. ZUMAPRESS.com<\/p>\n

Socialist superstars Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani and Sen. Bernie Sanders joined the striking workers in Brooklyn on Monday. Lev Radin\/Shutterstock<\/p>\n

\u201cWe must build a New York where our words do not ring hollow,\u201d he said. \u201cAs we say that this is a union town, and we must build a New York where the workers who power it are able to afford to live in it.\u201d<\/p>\n

The show of solidarity came as Mayor Eric Adams announced the city landed a record-breaking worker protection settlement for 15,000 Starbucks employees who were illegally denied predictable schedules.<\/p>\n

The settlement will give those workers $50 for each week worked from July 4, 2021, to July 7, 2024.<\/p>\n

Starbucks, which has more than 17,000 coffeehouses in the US, said 99% of its stores in the country remain open with minimal disruption.<\/p>\n

An investigation into the incident at Thursday\u2019s picket line remains ongoing, cops said. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A dozen Starbucks strikers were arrested at a picket line outside the coffee company\u2019s Midtown corporate headquarters Thursday,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":61464,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[3283,12614,57,9,11,10,49,51,50,14094,3555,58],"class_list":{"0":"post-61463","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-arrests","9":"tag-empire-state-building","10":"tag-metro","11":"tag-new-york","12":"tag-new-york-headlines","13":"tag-new-york-news","14":"tag-new-york-state","15":"tag-new-york-state-headlines","16":"tag-new-york-state-news","17":"tag-starbucks","18":"tag-unions","19":"tag-us-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61463","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61463"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61463\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61464"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}