Striking Amazon and Starbucks workers in California and elsewhere have long pushed for union contracts. The Trump administration is unlikely to be on their side.

The Starbucks workers' strike has expanded to Texas in a continued effort to win raises and protest certain labor practices, among other things. Starbucks Workers United announced last week that 98% of union partners had voted to strike in response to outstanding legal liabilities and unresolved unfair labor practices.

No Class is an op-ed column by writer and radical organizer Kim Kelly that connects worker struggles and the current state of the American labor movement with its storied — and sometimes bloodied — past.

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.

Starbucks workers at the Anderson Township location officially joined the nationwide strike on Tuesday morning, part of a growing movement led by the Starbucks Workers United union.

A five-day strike by Starbucks baristas has closed almost 60 stores across the United States as of Monday according to the union organising the protest. View on euronews

Less than a week before Christmas, Amazon and Starbucks employees are striking as their respective companies refuse to meet union demands.