The activists of the ‘Fight for $ 15’ campaign are considered by McDonald’s as a security agency and are being vigilanted including the use of social media monitoring tools, according to Vice.
McDonald’s Secret Intelligence has been spying for years on its employees who move up to a minimum of $ 15 per hour, informs this Wednesday’s issue of Vice, citing the example of the company with direct mail with the document filters that explain the company’s strategy and tactics.
Agreed with the media, a team of intelligence analysts at the McDonald’s offices in Chicago and London dedicated to monitoring the activities of the organizers of ‘Fight for $ 15’ (‘Lucha for 15 dollars per hour’) and all mundo, asi como a averiguar qué empleados de la empresa participan en ese movimiento y con quién trabajan para organizar huelgas, protestas o intentionar formar sindicatos.
The activists of the boy movement considered by McDonald’s as an amenity to safety and there are vigilantes including the use of social media monitoring tools.
Following the documents obtained by Vice, the giant of the fast-track committee has the objective of recover “strategic intelligence” about “counterparties”, as well as “political intelligence about political scenarios difficult in complex markets that could cause a significant disruption of the negotiation and impact the return of the inversion”.
In particular, analysts are investigating questions such as “what risk scenarios will manifest 2021 and affect McDonald’s” “cómo y dónde ‘Veg vir $ 15’ atacará a la marca”. Find out more about the “Fight for $ 15” activity against McDonald’s during the covid-19 crisis “contains a series of key points in which an intelligence analyst summarizes the activities of the labor activists and includes specific protests will be present and will be available on the Internet.
Agreed with Vice’s sources, since then McDonald’s has been using its internal analysts and data recovery software programs to spy on employees. In addition, the team secretly intends to reconstruct the lists of friends and speeches of workers involved in the labor movement using fake Facebook accounts.
“The idea was to discover its strategy, to counteract it and to make it clear to the key players who are known”, explains an example of McDonald’s corporate.
Various intelligence teams create that monitor the ethical work of the union, and some of them include the practice of doing so legally, including the extra workers.
McDonald’s Response
McDonald’s spokesman Jesse Lewin describes Vice’s publication as a history “false information charge” which together “distinguish pieces of information to construct a sensationalist narrative that is inaccurate and engaging”.
“McDonald’s does not tolerate retaliation of any kind. To be clear, none of the work of business intelligence is related to labor relations. Suggest this contract is completely false”, assures Lewin, adding that the company “only uses social media active form information, including labor activity “.
Prohibition of sins, McDonald’s confirms have a team “focused on identifying any amenaza potential the security that can represent a day for the team, the franchisees and the customers “.” For example, we have the responsibility to monitor those protest activity activities that could be the proposal to interrupt restaurant operations that could put the security of the team and the customer at risk, “said Lewin.
- The ‘Veg vir $ 15’ campaign launched in 2012, when McDonald’s employees in New York City abandon work demanding a $ 15 salary on time and the right to form a union without representation
- ‘Veg vir $ 15’, which is affiliated with the second mayor of the EE.UU syndicate, Service Employees International Union (SEIU),’s extension of the direction of all the countries and their conversion into one of the most exhaustive labor movements, logrando to approve a plan to increase the minimum wage in California, New York, Massachusetts, Illinois, Maryland and Florida
- Hasta la fecha, McDonald’s has refused to negotiate with the workers who, according to the company, are not employed by the workers for the French
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