Fast food workers and supporters across the world organised strikes and other direct action on 15 May as part of an international protest for decent wages and rights at work.
Workers in 150 American cities struck, with strikes and other actions organised in New Zealand, Italy, Pakistan, Japan, and the UK. In London, protesters gathered at McDonald’s on Whitehall, near Parliament.
The day of action was launched at a conference organised by the International Union of Food, Agricultural, Hotel, Restaurant, Catering, Tobacco and Allied Workers (IUF), which includes the unions behind American fast food workers’ long-running fight for a $15/hour minimum wage.
The conference was attended by delegates from the Bakers, Food, and Allied Workers Union (BFAWU) from Britain.
