{"id":39038,"date":"2025-11-19T23:18:16","date_gmt":"2025-11-19T23:18:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/39038\/"},"modified":"2025-11-19T23:18:16","modified_gmt":"2025-11-19T23:18:16","slug":"pennsylvania-starbucks-baristas-protest-outside-distribution-center","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/39038\/","title":{"rendered":"Pennsylvania Starbucks baristas protest outside distribution center"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tON NEWS EIGHT. TODAY, OVER 50 PENNSYLVANIA STARBUCKS BARISTAS, ALONGSIDE ALLIES AND LOCAL LEADERS HOLDING A DEMONSTRATION THIS MORNING IN YORK. OUTSIDE OF THE COMPANY\u2019S DISTRIBUTION CENTER. IT COMES JUST DAYS INTO THE UNION BARISTAS NATIONWIDE OPEN ENDED STRIKE. THE GROUP HAS BEEN PROTESTING WHAT THEY\u2019RE CALLED CALLING UNRESOLVED UNFAIR LABOR PRACTICES. IN A STATEMENT THAT NEWS 8 GOT WHEN THE STRIKE STARTED, THE COMPANY SAYS IN PART, WORKERS UNITED ONLY REPRESENTS AROUND 4% OF OUR PARTNERS, BUT CHOSE TO WALK AWAY FROM THE BARGAINING TABLE IF THEY\u2019RE READY TO COME BACK. WE\u2019RE READY TO TALK. ANY AGREEMENT NEEDS TO REFLECT THE REALITY THAT STARBUCKS ALREADY OFFERS THE BEST JOB IN RETAIL, INCLUDING MORE THAN $30 AN H\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n

Pennsylvania Starbucks baristas protest outside distribution center<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\"WGAL<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tUpdated: 5:20 PM EST Nov 19, 2025\n\t\t<\/p>\n

\t\tEditorial Standards \u24d8<\/a><\/p>\n

\n\t\t\t\t\t\tMore than 50 Starbucks baristas in Pennsylvania, joined by allies and local leaders, demonstrated outside the company’s distribution center in York Wednesday morning, protesting alleged unfair labor practices.The protest comes just days into the union baristas’ nationwide open-ended strike.The group has been protesting what they call Starbucks’ unresolved unfair labor practices.In a statement to News 8 last week when the strike began, Starbucks said, “Workers United only represents around 4% of our partners but chose to walk away from the bargaining table. If they’re ready to come back, we’re ready to talk.”The statement continued, “Any agreement needs to reflect the reality that Starbucks already offers the best job in retail, including more than $30 an hour on average in pay and benefits for hourly partners.”\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\tYORK, Pa. \u2014 \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n

More than 50 Starbucks baristas in Pennsylvania, joined by allies and local leaders, demonstrated outside the company’s distribution center in York Wednesday morning, protesting alleged unfair labor practices.<\/p>\n

The protest comes just days into the union baristas’ nationwide open-ended strike.<\/p>\n

The group has been protesting what they call Starbucks’ unresolved unfair labor practices.<\/p>\n

In a statement to News 8 last week when the strike began, Starbucks said, “Workers United only represents around 4% of our partners but chose to walk away from the bargaining table. If they’re ready to come back, we’re ready to talk.”<\/p>\n

The statement continued, “Any agreement needs to reflect the reality that Starbucks already offers the best job in retail, including more than $30 an hour on average in pay and benefits for hourly partners.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ON NEWS EIGHT. TODAY, OVER 50 PENNSYLVANIA STARBUCKS BARISTAS, ALONGSIDE ALLIES AND LOCAL LEADERS HOLDING A DEMONSTRATION THIS…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":39039,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[23688,23698,4329,23689,23699,15614,23694,139,23690,23696,14093,28,30,29,23692,23691,5519,23686,23687,6985,23693,23695,2813,1386,23697],"class_list":["post-39038","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pennsylvania","tag-allies-and-local-leaders","tag-ally","tag-day","tag-distribution-center","tag-good-job","tag-last-week","tag-nationwide-open-ended-strike","tag-news","tag-open-ended-strike","tag-pa-demonstrate","tag-partner","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania-headlines","tag-pennsylvania-news","tag-pennsylvania-starbucks-barista","tag-protesting-alleged-unfair-labor-practices","tag-starbucks","tag-starbucks-baristas","tag-starbucks-protests","tag-statement","tag-unfair-labor-practice","tag-union-barista","tag-york","tag-york-county","tag-york-wednesday-morning"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39038","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=39038"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39038\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}