{"id":3679,"date":"2023-11-18T00:14:29","date_gmt":"2023-11-18T04:14:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.radiorebelde.cu\/english\/?p=3679"},"modified":"2023-11-18T00:14:41","modified_gmt":"2023-11-18T04:14:41","slug":"thousands-of-starbucks-workers-walk-off-the-job-on-red-cup-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.radiorebelde.cu\/english\/thousands-of-starbucks-workers-walk-off-the-job-on-red-cup-day-18112023\/","title":{"rendered":"Thousands of Starbucks workers walk off the job on Red Cup Day"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Thousands of Starbucks workers held a one-day strike Thursday on \u201cRed Cup Day,\u201d one of Starbucks\u2019s busiest days of the year. &nbsp;Workers say frequent promotional events and giveaways like yesterday\u2019s create extra stress and unmanageable workloads.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Organizers say Thursday\u2019s walkout was the largest in the coffee chain\u2019s history. &nbsp;A historic union drive has swept over Starbucks stores nationwide in the past two years; over 360 locations are now unionized.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is Edwin Palma Solis, a Starbucks worker and union organizer in New York, spoke with reporters: &nbsp;\u201cWe want to make sure that we have better pay, staffing, scheduling, and we have the right amount of hours to work, because they\u2019ve been improperly staffing us. &nbsp;And sometimes it just makes it harder for us to work. You know, sometimes we feel like we work for two people instead of one, and we\u2019re just tired. &nbsp;We\u2019re just really tired of overworking ourselves.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thousands of Starbucks workers held a one-day strike Thursday on &ldquo;Red Cup Day,&rdquo; one of Starbucks&rsquo;s busiest days of the year. &nbsp;Workers say frequent promotional events and giveaways like yesterday&rsquo;s&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3680,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"ppma_author":[42],"class_list":["post-3679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"authors":[{"term_id":42,"user_id":0,"is_guest":1,"slug":"radio-habana-cuba","display_name":"Radio Habana Cuba","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&r=g","0":null,"1":"","2":"","3":"","4":"","5":"","6":"","7":"","8":""}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.radiorebelde.cu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3679","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.radiorebelde.cu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.radiorebelde.cu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.radiorebelde.cu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.radiorebelde.cu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3679"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.radiorebelde.cu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3679\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3681,"href":"https:\/\/www.radiorebelde.cu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3679\/revisions\/3681"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.radiorebelde.cu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3680"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.radiorebelde.cu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.radiorebelde.cu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.radiorebelde.cu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3679"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.radiorebelde.cu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=3679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}