{"id":47107,"date":"2025-11-28T20:30:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-28T20:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/47107\/"},"modified":"2025-11-28T20:30:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-28T20:30:09","slug":"union-starbucks-employees-in-exeter-twp-join-national-strike-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/47107\/","title":{"rendered":"Union Starbucks employees in Exeter Twp. join national strike | State"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>EXETER TWP., Pa. &#8211; Some Berks County Starbucks baristas were out early for Black Friday, but not behind the counter.<\/p>\n<p>Instead, those workers are picketing for a new contract.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier today in Exeter Township, union Starbucks baristas <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wfmz.com\/partners\/afp\/starbucks-baristas-launch-strike-on-chains-red-cup-day\/article_2095ed26-743b-5c99-b5c5-13b9cd554c87.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">joined the longest strike in the company&#8217;s history<\/a>. It started earlier this month, on &#8216;Red Cup Day.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>And it&#8217;s since grown to include 2,500 baristas across 85 cities.<\/p>\n<p>Workers say the company has been union busting and they still don&#8217;t have a fair union contract.<\/p>\n<p>Starbucks said the strike has caused minimal disruption to its operations.<\/p>\n<p>The company said it is prepared to talk when the union is ready to return to the bargaining table.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EXETER TWP., Pa. &#8211; Some Berks County Starbucks baristas were out early for Black Friday, but not behind&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":47108,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[3479,4458,1411,27674,59,27673,4443,27672,27670,27671,27675,28,128,130,129,375,27668,5519,27628,27669,27667,19044],"class_list":["post-47107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-advocacy","tag-business-ethics","tag-exeter-township","tag-industrial-relations","tag-labor","tag-labor-disputes","tag-labor-relations","tag-labor-related-organizations","tag-labour-movement","tag-occupational-organizations","tag-organizational-conflict","tag-pennsylvania","tag-reading-city","tag-reading-city-headlines","tag-reading-city-news","tag-social-conflict","tag-sociology-of-work","tag-starbucks","tag-starbucks-unions","tag-strikes-protest","tag-tactics","tag-trade-unions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47107","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=47107"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47107\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47108"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}