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Payroll Cards and Fees are Workers’ Rip-off and in Some Cases Illegal
New Orleans Some employers, including McDonalds, Walgreens, and others are forcing workers to be paid through bankcards. They “load” the cards with the amount owed the workers, and according to...
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The Co-Employer Fight at McDonald’s Searches for an Employer and a Strategy
protest at McDonald’s headquarters in Oak Park New Orleans More than a thousand fast food workers rallied at a convention center near O’Hare Airport in Chicago in a boisterous, morale boosting...
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NLRB Ruling May Not Ease Organizing, but Could Reduce Precariousness of Labor
New Orleans The decision of the U.S. General Counsel of the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) that McDonald’s acts as a “joint employer” in relation to its franchisees and therefore bears some...
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NLRB Quickstepping in Right Direction for Workers
New Orleans How much it will help is going to be an ongoing debate, but there have been a number of recent decisions by the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) that all seem to be in the right...
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Free Advice for Organizing McDonalds’ Workers
Scott Courtney, a leader of the Fight for 15 campaign, with protesters in Brazil. Credit Fernando Cavalcanti New Orleans There was SEIU’s organizing director Scott Courtney, friend and comrade, in a...
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The Big Mac Tactical Dilemma
Action at France’s Eurodisney New Orleans For the fourth year there was a tactical “strike” at McDonald’s stores. Organizers claimed there were actions of one sort or another in 300 cities around the...
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Union-backed Walmart and McDonalds’ Campaigns Face Uncertain Futures
New Orleans The emperor with no clothes is not a pretty sight, and it’s almost as bad when the finger pointing at him is Dave Jamieson, a labor reporter for the Huffington Post in a piece entitled...
View ArticleGMO Contradictory Claims and Tripping up McDonalds in Paris
Grenoble The counterclaims around genetically modified crops around the world are head spinning. Thousands march to protest their use in the US and Europe. Noted scientists take out ads in major...
View ArticleHard Changes Coming to France?
Paris The day began with an ominously when I woke up at 2:05 AM for my 2:45 AM ride to the 3:17 AM train to Budapest. After taking a shower, I realized that in the dark, I had misread the … Continue...
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McDonalds’ Sweetheart Deal with New NLRB Gets Fried
New Orleans McDonalds’ strategy of stiff arming its workers, having its legal staff pursue frivolous delays to run out the clock on the Obama Administration, and do anything and everything to avoid...
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