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For a selection of previous media coverage see below.
Previous Media Releases:
17 March 2021: Reaction: Sky News Report “McDonald’s investigates after staff say lives at risk by failure to follow COVID safety rules”
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:
22 February 2021 ‘If You Want Work, You Keep Quiet’: Fast Food Workers on the COVID Frontline
09 June 2020 McDonald’s Workers Fear the Cost of Reopening
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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