McDonalds workers across the country set to strike for $15 hourly wage ahead of fast food giant’s annual shareholder meeting
“McDonalds Workers Will Strike for $15 and Hour in 15 Cities”, 07 May 2021
McDonald's cashiers and cooks in 15 U.S. cities will strike on May 19—a day before the fast-food behemoth's annual shareholder meeting—to demand McDonald's pay all of its workers at least $15 an hour…
In recent months, McDonald's stores have become desperate for employees, offering workers bonuses and incentives to sign up for a job…
Striking workers around the country, who are part of the Fight For $15 movement, say McDonald's has an easy solution to this labor shortage: it can simply raise its minimum wage to $15 an hour at all of their stores. The company's sales are booming, thanks to demand for faster drive-thru orders…
On the day of the strike, workers will be walking off the job in Los Angeles, Oakland, Sacramento, Miami, Tampa, Orlando, Chicago, Detroit, Flint, Kansas City, St Louis, Houston, Milwaukee and other cities…
In late April, on an earnings call, McDonald's CEO Chris Kempczinski and president Joseph Erlinger suggested that a McDonald's wage increase could be coming soon…
"I think one of the things that we are thinking about...is in our company-owned restaurants, how do we think about what the pay and benefits package need to look like for us to make sure that we're able to get the people that we need," Kempczinski said.
"We're working through what some changes in our company-owned restaurants might look like from a wages and compensation perspective," Erlinger added.
Earlier this year, a Motherboard investigation revealed that McDonald's has a secret intel team that has spied on its workers in the Fight for $15 campaign ... labelling the group at a security threat…