Back again on the streets, workers affirm their commitment to keep fighting for rights at Cargill Turkey
...demanding their reinstatement, and then move to actions aimed at Cargill customers, including Fastad, which supplies Istanbul Burger King restaurants, and transnational customers including Coca-Cola, Dr. Oetker, Mondelez and Nestlé....
Denmark: Burger King workers win their first collective agreement
The IUF-affiliated 3F has won a first collective agreement covering 33 Burger King restaurants owned by four different operators. The collective agreement covers some 1,400 employees and provides for guaranteed...
Beyond meat? What’s inside – and behind – the lab-grown protein rush
...Impossible Foods’ Impossible Whopper can now be purchased at Burger King, and the company is raising large amounts of cash in preparation for its own expected IPO. What’s behind the...
Victimized trade unionists at Burger King Spain reinstated following public campaign and negotiations
Burger King Spain has cancelled the disciplinary dismissals of the three trade unionists dismissed solely for their union membership and activity earlier this year. The three workers – two of...
Burger King attacks the right to organize in Spain
In recent weeks Burger King Spain SLU which manages over 380 restaurants, has dismissed two union workplace leaders in response to union activity, Carmen Poveda and Sara Faddane, and one...
Fast food workers win guaranteed hours in New Zealand
...a massive win for workers. However, Unite has accused McDonald’s and Burger King of trying to deny workers their rights under both the collective agreements and the law and will...
Victory in California for ‘Fight for 15’ union campaign to raise minimum wage
...speaking out and keep on sticking together until we win $15 everywhere,” said Terrence Wise, a McDonald’s and Burger King worker in Kansas City and a leader of the campaign....
Editorial: Heinz, Mondelez and the private equity effect
Editorial: The more things change: Heinz and the varieties of private equity buyout
...to squeeze even more cash out of Burger King when they took over from an earlier private equity consortium. “These guys get their hands really dirty in their businesses,” commented...
How Fast Food Workers Super-Sized Their Pay in New Zealand
The New Zealand union Unite launched its “SuperSize My Pay” campaign in 2005. Now with more than 4,000 members at KFC, Pizza Hut, McDonald’s, Starbucks, Burger King, and Wendy’s, it...