Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for high priority data scheduling in uplink bursts. Aspects provide a method that may be performed by a user equipment (UE). The method generally includes receiving one or more uplink grants scheduling a plurality of transmission occasions for the UE. The method generally includes performing a listen-before-talk (LBT) procedure to attempt to acquire a channel for transmitting in at least one of the plurality of transmission occasions. The method generally includes determining one or more of the plurality of transmission occasions to transmit data based, at least in part, on the LBT procedure.