McDonalds
MWR speech about web activism at the European Social Forum, 2002
Transcript of MWR member Bouncer's speech about the group internet activism at the European Social Forum in Florence, Italy, November 2002.
As we have heard, in the beginning, some time in 1997, the roots of what we now know and love (or hate as the case may be) as MWR started as an attempt to unionise a McDonald's store, bringing forth comments from managers such as- "do you want to keep your job? You could go far".
McDonalds Workers Resistance member's speech to Canadian Labour Congress, 2003
Transcript of a speech by Wayne from MWR to the Canadian Labour Congress' Mid-Term Conference in Ottawa on October 18 2003.
Well I'm very grateful for the chance to address you and very glad to be here, it's my first time over here, I've worked for McDonalds for 6 years but it's only now I visit Canada that I really understand service culture. I've got to admit, I like it.
McDonalds, 9-11 and US foreign policy
Statement by Glasgow MWR following a statement issued by the McDonalds corporation following the September 11th attacks covering the attacks, the war, and McDonalds itself
Vietnam: Happy meals, unhappy workers - the wave of workers’ discontent
Aaron Glantz and Ngoc Nguyen report on the conditions and views of Vietnamese manufacturing workers who have been responsible for waves of wildcat strikes in recent months.
Ho Chi Minh City - It’s nearly five p.m. and factory workers at one of Vietnam’s largest industrial parks flood into the streets of Ho Chi Minh City’s sprawling outskirts. Some of the workers are clocking out, others signing in. Those who are done for the day cross the busy highway to buy groceries from vendors camped along the dusty street.
NZ: McDonald's backs down after lunchtime strike
McDonald’s workers in Auckland, New Zealand carried out a symbolic strike at lunchtime on Friday despite the company’s threats to sue individual workers if they took part in union action.
After the strike, the company retracted their threat issued last night to sue any of their workers who went on strike today.
The symbolic strike was in response to a number of Unite union members being rostered off by the company on Sunday February 12, when it was agreed the workers would be paid to go to a union stopwork meeting at the Town Hall.
