The Tories introduced the 50% strike ballot threshold to make industrial action harder. MATT WRACK argues that a Labour government has no justification for leaving it on the statute book
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McDonald’s workers speak out against sexual harassment and low pay
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Scotland's Labour leader cannot continue to evade responsibility for the party's decline, argues LAUREN HARPER
Nature as well as society works dialectically, asserts the Marx Memorial Library and Workers’ School
IMAGINE getting groped and fondled on the job, twice in one month, by two different male coworkers — and your supervisors turn a deaf ear. So much so that you’re forced to take three weeks off work without pay to try to recover.
That’s what happened last year to Tanya Harrel, an African-American McDonald’s worker in New Orleans and one of 10 women of colour forced to file federal Equal Employment Opportunity Commission complaints against the fast-food giant in late May.
And two days later, McDonald’s workers took their cases — against sexual harassment, against low pay and against company labour law-breaking — to McDonald’s shareholders too.
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