food service
Having a nice day: the McDonalds Workers Resistance - Face magazine, 2001
Article about MWR which appeared in style magazine Face in May 2001, which was written following this interview with the group.
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Interview with McDonalds Workers Resistance - Face magazine, 2000
Full transcript on an informative and amusing interview carried out between the Face style magazine and members of McDonalds Workers Resistance. This article was subsequently published.
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Dinner ladies may strike
A group of dinner ladies based in Hackney who claim they are being underpaid are threatening strike action.
The cooks and catering assistants based at 27 schools in the London borough are currently employed by contractors, but say they do not receive the same rates as those directly employed by the council.
Barred pub regulars fight back in Somers Town
Regulars barred from the Somers Town Coffee House in Chalton Street near Kings Cross, are demanding to be re-admitted to their local pub.
"Dozens" of regulars have been banned in a process described as "discrimination" by one member of the commmunity.
The Camden New Journal reports:
Lifelong regulars barred from a historic Somers Town pub when it went upmarket have started a petition demanding to be readmitted.
Lend a hand: Starbucks engaging in religious persecution of IWW barista
For the second time in as many months, Starbucks management has kicked Starbucks Workers Union member Suley Ayala out of the workplace for wearing her modest Pentagram necklace.
Religious Discrimination
Ms. Ayala is a practicing Wiccan and as a religious observance never takes off the necklace. She wore the necklace at Starbucks without interruption for three years until the company started harassing her after she and a group of her co-workers went public as members of the Starbucks Workers Union on November 18, 2005.
Workers at third US Starbucks go union
In New York City at the end of last year Starbucks baristas and supporters wearing union pins and hats surrounded the store manager at the Union Square location in Manhattan tonight to announce their membership in the IWW Starbucks Workers Union.
The workers, joined by union baristas from two other New York Starbucks stores, demanded a guaranteed minimum of 30 hours of work per week and an end to Starbucks' unlawful anti-union campaign. The Union will assail Starbucks with a wide array of actions until the demands are met.
First starbucks strike in the world!
It was bound to happen eventually -- and it happened today in New Zealand. Low-paid Starbucks workers walked off the job and formed a picket line.
They were joined by workers from other low paid, fast-food restaurants such as KFC and Pizza Hut.
Starbucks, which tries to project an image as a caring, progressive, company, has some 80,000 employees worldwide. It pays those workers minimum wage or only slightly above, and generally does not welcome unions.
A view from inside the Gate Gourmet dispute
Corporate Watch presents an interview with Mrs Kaur, one of the striking workers at airline catering company Gate Gourmet. Mrs Kaur has worked at Gate Gourmet for over six and a half years.
Have conditions changed over the past few years?
Gate Gourmet dispute continues
Although it's dropped out of the headlines, the Gate Gourmet dispute is still very much going on.
Workers are still picketing daily on Beacon Hill, Gate Gourmet workers called a press conference today, the details of which follow below.
BA acts against three workers for Gate Gourmet solidarity
British Airways has started disciplinary proceedings against three shop stewards following August's unofficial strike at Heathrow Airport.
At the time, baggage handlers walked out for two days in sympathy with sacked workers at the airline's in-flight caterer Gate Gourmet.
British Airways said two of the shop stewards have been suspended on full pay while the third continues to work.
All three are members of the Transport & General Workers' Union (T&G).
