Workers at Starbucks locations in the metro area and Duluth have joined a nationwide strike. Starbucks Workers United — which represents workers at more than 500 stores across the country — recently authorized an unfair labor practices strike, with workers walking off the job on Christmas Eve.

Starbucks' union says workers are walking off the job at some 300 — out of over 10,000 — stores across the U.S. as contract negotiations falter. The company urges it to return to the bargaining table.

A rolling strike of Starbucks baristas began Friday and grows to include about 300 of the coffee giant's shops across the U.S.

Unionized Starbucks employees conducted a one-day strike outside two Omaha locations Tuesday morning to advocate for better working conditions.

In what the union has dubbed "The Strike Before Christmas," more than 5,000 workers are walking out of 300-plus Starbucks locations nationwide Tuesday.

If a strike by Starbucks Corp. (NASDAQ: SBUX) workers is supposed to get them better benefits and treatment, the store count affected by the union action is modest. About 300 of Starbucks’ 16,621 U.S.

Starbucks baristas' fast-growing unfair labor practice strike is expected to hit historic levels Tuesday as hundreds of stores nationwide prepare to join walkouts at the coffee giant. The Starbucks Workers United strike,

More than 5,000 workers were expected to take part in walkout that ends later on Christmas Eve, their union says.

Workers at more than a dozen Chicago area Starbucks were on strike Christmas Eve, union organizers said, as baristas escalated a national walkout that began in three cities, including Chicago, on Friday.