McDonald’s employees from 10 major cities intend to walk out of work on Tuesday.
Employees will walk out from McDonald’s restaurants in cities including Chicago, Detroit, Houston, and Miami. Fight for $15, the walkout organizer, intends to use these events to draw attention to accusations of sexual harassment and assault inside the fast-food company. Organizers also say that they will call for workers to unionize, saying McDonald’s does not provide enough protection for employees.
“I’m going on strike because, despite years of protests, McDonald’s still refuses to take responsibility for the countless women and teenagers who face harassment on the job at its stores across the globe,” Jamelia Fairley told the Hill. Fairley is one of two named employees in a $500 million class-action lawsuit filed in 2020 over “pervasive sexual harassment.”
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The walkout seeks to draw attention to years of concerns about the company’s handling of sexual harassment. In 2018, protesters walked out of restaurants across several states, boasting a similar “Stop Sexual Harassment” campaign directed at the fast-food titan.
McDonald’s employees filed more than 50 harassment complaints to the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission between 2016 and 2019. In September, the EEOC filed a lawsuit alleging that a McDonald’s franchisee did not correctly handle accusations of sexual harassment across 22 locations in Nevada, California, and Arizona.
In April, the fast-food chain said that it now required anti-harassment training at its restaurants worldwide. The new training policies will go into effect in January 2022.
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McDonald’s CEO Scott Easterbrook was fired in 2019 for having a consensual relationship that breached McDonald’s business conduct policies.
McDonald’s did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
