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Previous Media Releases:
24 March 2020: Wetherspoons workers have rent to pay and food to buy
23 March 2020: McDonald’s Workers shouldn’t be facing poverty as well as the corona virus
25 October 2019: Largest McStrike launched at 6 South London stores.
20 September 2018: Hospitality Workers to Strike Together on Thursday October 4th
17 September 2018: Wetherspoons responds to Brighton workers’ strike ballot by bringing pay award forward.
30 August 2018: “McStrike” Union to Ballot JD Wetherspoon Workers on Industrial Action
31 July 2018: Fast food workers burned on the job urged to join #McBurned camapign
18 April 2018: McStrike: McDonald’s Workers call for McSolidarity on International Workers’ Day
15 April: McStrike to Spread Across UK on May Day
06 April 2018: McStrike: Ballot for Strike Action at six McDonald’s Stores Across the UK.
01 September 2017 McDonald’s UK Workers to strike for the first time in history
Selection of Recent Media Coverage:
24 March 2020 JD Wetherspoon denies ‘abandoning’ staff in coronavirus crisis
20 September 2018: Wetherspoons Strike: Why Staff are Taking Action for First Time
20 September 2018: Wetherspoon’s and McDonald’s staff to strike together
26 June 2018: “If you don’t take them on globally, you won’t win” – how Fight for $15 in the US inspired the UK’s McStrike
01 June 2018:Young people are leading a growing movement against low pay and precarious work
01 May 2018: Why I’m on McStrike: ‘£10 an hour would change our lives’
18 April 2018: Super-sized lies: How the Sun tried and failed to smear the #McStrike
03 April 2018: Whispers of another McDonald’s strike are circulating – this time in more stores and more cities
16 February 2018: Meet the McDonald’s Workers Battling for a living wage as millionaire global boss enjoys 369% pay rise.
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