America’s unions have had a banner year. In November 33,000 machinists returned to their stations at Boeing having won a 38% wage increase over four years. Their victory followed a seven-week strike that brought the planemaker to its knees.

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.

Meg Wright wants Starbucks Corp. executives to negotiate a fair contract that includes protected benefits and increased wages. But that contract hasn't come to fruition in a yearslong battle between company executives and officials of the national organization Starbucks Workers United,