Scott Courtney says unionizing a few hundred McDonald’s restaurants is ‘too small of an approach’ in minimum wage movement gaining global momentum The Fight for $15 is giving McDonald’s a stark choice: either sit down and work together with us to find a way to lift up hundreds of thousands of low-wage McDonald’s workers or face continued economic war.
That warning is not without heft. Already,as a result of the Fight for $15’s prodding, Brazilian prosecutors are investigating alleged wage theft, and child labor and unsafe conditions at McDonald’s franchised operations,while the European Union is investigating it for more than $1bn in alleged tax evasion. Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com