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The May Day McDonald’s strike built on the late 2017 successful action and now the workers’ union is demanding £10 an hour.
Bakers and foodworkers union leader Ronnie Draper told the Morning Star: “Pay is still unacceptably low. We have members at McDonald’s who are literally homeless, a member from Cambridge is sofa-surfing because he can’t afford anywhere to live.
Contrast that with McDonald’s boss Steve Easterbrook on £11million a year.
“His pay packet equates to an astonishing £5,700 an hour,” Draper points out.
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