{"id":71997,"date":"2026-04-17T07:55:21","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T12:55:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/17\/employees-at-first-ever-starbucks-store-seek-to-unionize-amid-fight-for-contract\/"},"modified":"2026-04-17T07:55:21","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T12:55:21","slug":"employees-at-first-ever-starbucks-store-seek-to-unionize-amid-fight-for-contract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/17\/employees-at-first-ever-starbucks-store-seek-to-unionize-amid-fight-for-contract\/","title":{"rendered":"Employees at first ever Starbucks store seek to unionize amid fight for contract"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Store opened in 1971 in Seattle\u2019s Pike Place Market joins growing unionization campaign across the coffee chain<\/p>\n<p>Workers at the historic first Starbucks store are seeking to unionize as the coffee retail giant and its union appear stalemated over their first contract.<\/p>\n<p>The first Starbucks store <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pikeplacemarket.org\/vendor\/the-first-starbucks\/\">opened<\/a> in 1971 in Seattle\u2019s Pike Place Market, and the store serves as a tourist site in Seattle.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2026\/apr\/17\/first-ever-starbucks-store-seeks-to-unionize\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Store opened in 1971 in Seattle\u2019s Pike Place Market joins growing unionization campaign across the coffee chain Workers at the historic first Starbucks store are seeking to unionize as the coffee retail giant and its union appear stalemated over their first contract. The first Starbucks store opened in 1971 in Seattle\u2019s Pike Place Market, and &#8230; <a title=\"Employees at first ever Starbucks store seek to unionize amid fight for contract\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/17\/employees-at-first-ever-starbucks-store-seek-to-unionize-amid-fight-for-contract\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Employees at first ever Starbucks store seek to unionize amid fight for contract\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71997","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71997","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71997"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71997\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}