Common Dreams: Amid Protest Plans, McDonald's to Ban Media from Shareholder Meeting
Published on Monday, May 18, 2015
Fight for $15 workers plan to call on the fast food giant to lift employee wages and end discriminatory treatment
With thousands of workers planning to descend on McDonald's annual shareholder meeting on May 21 to demand higher wages and fairer treatment, the fast food giant has announced it will ban all media from the corporate eventa move that union leaders called "extremely shocking and troubling."
"We can't think of a single other company who has dared to ban the press from an annual meeting," the AFL-CIO told the Guardian on Monday. "What does the company have to hide?"
"We call on McDonalds to reverse their decision and allow the media," Vineeta Anand, the AFL-CIO chief investment research analyst, told the Guardian. "Sunshine is the best disinfectant, when you shine a light on a company it changes their behaviour. They are acting like some sort of secret society."
"McDonald's is not an insignificant company, they are one of the nation's best-known household names and it is extremely shocking and troubling that a company of its size would ban the press," Anand added.
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