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 the company. S

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.

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

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

The workers’ union warns the walkouts could spread to hundreds of cafes by Christmas Eve if Starbucks does not meet demands at the bargaining table.

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.

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

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,