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4 September 2017

McStrike: Why McDonald’s staff are taking to the picket line

Grievances over management and conditions have led to industrial action.

By Jason Murugesu

On Monday, more than 200 people gathered at Parliament to show support for the first ever strike by McDonald’s workers in the UK. As demonstrators and strikers posed for a photo in front of Westminster Palace, they chanted: “I believe that we will win”. 

The dispute has, like the Picturehouse Cinema strikes before it, become a focal point for discontent at the UK’s treatment of low paid staff.

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