Amazon, Starbucks workers strike, possible Trump link raises questions

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

The strikes that started Thursday and Friday followed other recent standoffs between corporate America and organised labour. Large and established labor unions secured meaningful employer concessions this year following strikes by Boeing factory workers, dockworkers at East and Gulf coast ports, video game performers, and hotel and casino workers on the Las Vegas Strip.