Amazon delivery drivers and Starbucks baristas are on strike in a handful of U.S. cities as they seek to exert pressure on the two major companies to recognize them as unionized employees or to meet demands for an inaugural

A five-day strike by Starbucks baristas had closed at least 59 stores as of Monday afternoon, according to the union organizing the workers

A strike at Starbucks will expand to over 300 U.S. stores on Tuesday, with more than 5,000 workers expected to walk off the job before the five-day work stoppage ends later on Christmas Eve, the workers' union said.

Police in Lakeville have determined what led to about 80 Amazon packages being discovered abandoned in a wooded area Sunday morning.

About 80 Amazon packages were found abandoned in the woods in Lakeville on Sunday morning, officials said. At about 2 a.m., a police officer was on routine patrol when he noticed “three large totes full of Amazon packages” at the edge of the woods,

Dozens of Amazon packages were discovered abandoned in the woods of a Massachusetts town mere days before Christmas, but it wasn't the Grinch stealing presents — it was a delivery driver who said stress led them to dump the lot.