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ANGUS REID warmly applauds a play inspired by a real-life union campaign against zero-hours contracts
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About Money
Summerhall Summerhall, Edinburgh
WERE every one of McDonald’s 130,000 workers to go on strike for fair pay, fair rotas and fair contracts the effect would be to transform not just the British workforce, but a global workforce.
The movement McStrike, which is supported by Unite and the BFAWU (Bakers, Food and Allied Workers’ Union) aims to achieve exactly this goal, and the piecemeal actions that began in 2017 and continued in 2019 and 2020 are demonstrations of this potential given widespread union involvement in the industry.
The corporation, on the other hand, requires a workforce that lives in desperate circumstances to maintain low wages, high profits and zero-hours contracts.
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