{"id":29301,"date":"2018-02-15T15:56:33","date_gmt":"2018-02-15T15:56:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jomec.co.uk\/intercardiff\/?p=29301"},"modified":"2018-02-15T15:56:33","modified_gmt":"2018-02-15T15:56:33","slug":"local-worker-union-protest-mcdonalds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/politics-social-justice\/local-worker-union-protest-mcdonalds","title":{"rendered":"Local Union Protest Against McDonald&#8217;s"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Social campaigners fight for\uffe110 per hour wages and improved working conditions for McDonald&#8217;s workers.<\/h2>\n<figure id=\"attachment_29332\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-29332\" style=\"width: 625px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-29332 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2018\/02\/campaigner-is-giving-speech-in-the-front-of-macdonalds-625x352.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"625\" height=\"352\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-29332\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-29332 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2018\/02\/campaigner-is-giving-speech-in-the-front-of-macdonalds-625x352.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"625\" height=\"352\" \/><\/noscript> Cardiff Trades Union&#8217;s speaking on Queen&#8217;s Street.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Cardiff Trades Union held a demonstration in front of McDonald&#8217;s, Queen Street on 12 February. They protest against low wages and poor working conditions in this powerful fast-food corporation.<\/p>\n<p>It is necessary for McDonald&#8217;s to recognize the Union and they should offer a fair deal to their workers, according to one Cardiff campaigner.<\/p>\n<p>Around 30 people stood outside the front door of McDonald&#8217;s. There are several campaigners offered strong statements on the issue.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe saw earlier this year, McDonald&#8217;s workers went on strike for the first time in the UK history\u2026Two months later, the organisation announced a pay increase for McDonald&#8217;s workers of all wages,\u201d says Rich Edwards, the secretary of Socialist Party and significant member of Bakers Union. \u201cJoining in a trade union and taking strike actions. It works and it gets results\u201d.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_29343\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-29343\" style=\"width: 625px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-29343 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2018\/02\/Rich-Edwards-625x352.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"625\" height=\"352\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-29343\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-29343 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2018\/02\/Rich-Edwards-625x352.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"625\" height=\"352\" \/><\/noscript> Rich Edwards offering his opinion at the protest.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>In September 2017, two McDonald\u2019s restaurants organised\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2017\/sep\/04\/mcdonalds-workers-strike-cambridge-crayford\">historic strikes.<\/a>\u00a0They were calling for the growth of payment and improved conditions in the workplace. These strikes led directly to the increase in wages.<\/p>\n<p>However, this increase has not yet met the<strong>\uffe1<\/strong>10 per hour target, a key aim for the campaigners.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLast year they actually organised a successful strike for the first time ever. So we stand in solidarity with McDonald&#8217;s workers and we demand decent working conditions for everybody, regardless of where they work,\u201d says the Mia Hollsing, the candidate of UNISON Action. \u201cThey don&#8217;t know how many hours they will be working from one week to the next. It means you can&#8217;t plan your life because you don&#8217;t know when you&#8217;re going to be working and you don&#8217;t know what your income is going to be.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A spokesman for McDonald\u2019s said, \u201cWe are proud of our people at McDonald\u2019s. They are at the heart of all we do and we work hard to ensure that our teams are treated fairly. Our internal processes underpin that commitment.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-29414\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2018\/02\/new-piktochart_28066899-1-625x944.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"625\" height=\"944\" \/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-29414\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2018\/02\/new-piktochart_28066899-1-625x944.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"625\" height=\"944\" \/><\/noscript><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>McDonald&#8217;s workers have encountered the poor condition of the workplace when they work in the restaurant.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":497,"featured_media":29328,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-29301","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics-social-justice"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Local Union Protest Against McDonald&#039;s - InterCardiff<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Social campaigners fight for\uffe110 per hour for McDonald&#039;s workers. 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