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McDonalds strike
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Young workers fighting for their future. New generation standing up!
Young and precarious workers across Britain and Ireland are getting organised. Small but successful campaigns - such as the McDonald's strike, #Betterthanzero in Scotland and Unite the Union’s Fair Hospitality initiative – have begun to rebuild a fighting trade union consciousness among young people which had been lost by decades of inaction by the majority of union leaderships.
McDonald’s strike: Organising the unorganised
For the first time ever, McDonald’s workers in Britain are be striking. The first day of this historic strike, on the 4th of September will see some of the worst treated, lowest paid and precarious workers taking on the notoriously anti-union McDonald’s at its restaurants in Cambridge and in Crayford, south-east London.