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RETREATS by the Tories and giant chains like McDonald’s and Wetherspoon show that workers “rising up together is making the bosses nervous.”
TGI Friday’s worker and Unite activist Lauren Townsend is one of thousands coming together today for joint strikes and a day of action around low pay and insecure work in the hospitality industry and will be rallying on Leicester Square from 11am.
Speaking to the Morning Star before the action, she is enthused by the way the initial joint action planned by Unite and bakers’ union BFAWU rooted in the McDonald’s, TGI Friday’s and Wetherspoon disputes has snowballed into a Britain-wide event with fast-food couriers organised by the GMB, the IWGB and others also striking and protesting.
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