PRESS DIGEST- New York Times business news - Dec 20

Reuters12-20

Dec 20 (Reuters) - The following are the top stories on the New York Times business pages. Reuters has not verified these stories and does not vouch for their accuracy.

- The union representing Starbucks workers said on Thursday that baristas in Los Angeles, Chicago and Seattle would walk off the job Friday morning and that the strikes could spread to hundreds of stores by Christmas Eve unless an agreement is reached with the company.

- U.S. Federal health and safety regulators announced a corporate-wide settlement with Amazon on Thursday, bringing an end to cases involving accusations of safety violations at 10 warehouses in several states.

- Workers who deliver packages from seven Amazon facilities across the country went on strike Thursday morning, according to the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, the union that represents them.

- President-elect Donald Trump has denounced a bipartisan spending deal that would fund the government until mid-March, telling Republican lawmakers that it would be "suicidal" to vote for it. His intervention all but buried the agreement with government funding scheduled to lapse in less than two days.

(Compiled by Bengaluru newsroom)

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