Ashlee Rezin/Sun-Times Share Workers at some Starbucks stores started a five-day strike Friday in three U.S. cities, including Chicago, to protest lack of progress in contract negotiations with ...

On the heels of the Christmas rush, Starbucks union employees plan to strike in three states Friday citing issues over wages, benefits and staffing. A five-day strike is slated in Chicago, Seattle, ...

CHICAGO (CBS) -- Starbucks workers were back ... There are 535 unionized Starbucks stores in the U.S. Several suburban Starbucks locations are also unionized, according to the union.

Workers at Starbucks stores began a five-day strike Friday to protest lack of progress in contract negotiations with the company.The strikes by baristas and other workers were scheduled to take place ...

The strike began Friday at stores in the Los Angeles, Seattle and Chicago areas and will end on Tuesday. By Noam Scheiber Workers picketing at a Starbucks in the Edgewater neighborhood in Chicago ...

Starbucks baristas went on strike at several stores in Chicago, Seattle and Los Angeles on Friday, with their union warning the walkouts could spread to hundreds of cafes by Christmas Eve if the ...

The walkouts in Los Angeles, Chicago and Seattle come after talks between the company and the workers’ union failed to ...

The strike, which began Friday in Los Angeles, Chicago and Starbucks’ hometown of Seattle, continued spreading to stores across the country over the weekend.

A handful of Illinois stores outside the Chicago area were also on strike, organizers said. Starbucks worker and organizing committee member Alison Guerrin, center, chants while striking at the ...

Chicago and Seattle on Friday morning. Workers United, which has a bargaining delegation that represents workers at 525 Starbucks stores in the United States, said walkouts are expected to spread ...

In Chicago, baristas at the company’s store at 5964 N. Ridge Ave. in Edgewater, one of the first in the city to unionize more than two years ago, were on strike Friday morning.