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.

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.

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.

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

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.