{"id":298359,"date":"2026-10-02T13:32:11","date_gmt":"2026-10-02T13:32:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/298359\/"},"modified":"2026-10-02T13:32:11","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T13:32:11","slug":"philadelphia-city-council-becomes-1st-city-to-officially-back-the-starbucks-workers-united-boycott","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/298359\/","title":{"rendered":"Philadelphia City Council becomes 1st city to officially back the Starbucks Workers United boycott"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Philadelphia City Council is calling for a boycott of Starbucks until the company reaches a contract with its unionized baristas.<\/p>\n<p>WPVI<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"6abc Digital Staff Image\" class=\"hsDdd NDJZt sJeUN IJwXl \" data-testid=\"prism-image\" draggable=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/1790947931_520_16248352_2024-wpvi-generic-6abc-logo-on-white-background-img-v3.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Friday, October 2, 2026 11:21AM<\/p>\n<p>Follow 6abc on Google<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) &#8212; Philadelphia City Council is calling for a boycott of <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/6abc.com\/tag\/starbucks\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Starbucks<\/a> until the company reaches a contract with its unionized baristas.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">A resolution passed on Thursday makes Philadelphia the first U.S. city to officially back the Starbucks Workers United boycott.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The union represents more than 12,000 baristas nationwide.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The union issued a statement saying it is no longer possible to be both a Starbucks customer and support workers, calling the coffee chain a &#8220;law-breaking corporation.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">Action News reached out to Starbucks for comment and so far, have not heard back.<br class=\" \"\/><\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2026 WPVI-TV. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Philadelphia City Council is calling for a boycott of Starbucks until the company reaches a contract with its&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":298360,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[123144,69,71,70],"class_list":["post-298359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-123144","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298359","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=298359"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298359\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/298360"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=298359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=298359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=298359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}