McDonalds

Illegal immigrants win unpaid wages in Stockholm

Ed — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 16:24:28 +0000

The increasing organisation of illegal immigrants within the syndicalist union SAC have lead to more and more blockades to force the payment of unpaid wages, mainly from employment agencies in the restaurant, cleaning, hotel and building industry. Millions Kronor in unpaid wages have been have been won by the SAC.

Super Size My Pay - Fast food workers in New Zealand organise for better pay and conditions, 2005-6

Steven. — Thu, 08 Mar 2007 16:21:37 +0000

This text is taken from the December 2006 issue of the Industrial Workers of the World Australia's newsletter, Direct Action.

Strike at McDonalds, Paris, August 2004

Steven. — Wed, 22 Nov 2006 12:25:16 +0000

A brief account and information about a CGT union strike at the McDonald’s Place d’Italie branch in Paris in 2004.

Lessons of MWR - Interview with former McDonalds Workers Resistance member, 2006

Steven. — Tue, 21 Nov 2006 10:32:18 +0000

So, who are you?
The proletarian formerly known as Funnywump.

Briefly, what was McDonald’s Workers Resistance?

McDonald’s Workers’ Resistance - reflections, 2004

Steven. — Tue, 21 Nov 2006 10:19:40 +0000

McDonald’s Workers’ Resistance was set up by a group of teenage workers at one restaurant in Scotland in 1999. In 2000 those workers decided they needed to communicate with other McDonald’s workers in the UK and around the world.

Being a McWorker in Germany, 2002

Steven. — Mon, 13 Nov 2006 10:28:57 +0000

One worker's account of being a McDonalds employee in Germany, with information about the workforce, the atmosphere and issues facing the workers.

McRevolution! Who are the shadowy burger flippers plotting to bring down McDonalds? - Loaded

libcom — Sun, 07 May 2006 19:41:51 +0000

McREVOLUTION
Who are the shadowy burger flippers plotting to bring down McDonalds?

Having a nice day: the McDonalds Workers Resistance - Face magazine, 2001

libcom — Sun, 07 May 2006 19:19:06 +0000

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MWR speech about web activism at the European Social Forum, 2002

libcom — Sun, 07 May 2006 19:02:49 +0000

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

libcom — Sun, 07 May 2006 18:28:11 +0000

Transcript of a speech by Wayne from MWR to the Canadian Labour Congress' Mid-Term Conference in Ottawa on October 18 2003

McDonalds, 9-11 and US foreign policy

libcom — Sun, 07 May 2006 16:53:53 +0000

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

libcom — Thu, 09 Mar 2006 13:07:47 +0000

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

Steven. — Sun, 12 Feb 2006 10:16:23 +0000

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.