[news] An old workers dying wish

[Resist!ca]

Since Thursday, June 23, Joseph McNeil has been sitting outside a McDonalds restaruant in uptown Barrie, Ontario, on a hunger strike against McDonalds Corporation. This former security guard, now 50-something and sleeping under a tarp in a nearby forest, has three seemingly simple demands: (1) Corporations must abide by all laws; the same laws applied to individuals should be applied to corporations as well. (2) All workers holding management and supervisor positions should be trained bi-annually on the laws; labour and beyond; that apply to their business. (3) All workers, especially the most vulnerable of the workforce - young workers and new Canadian citizens - should be treated to bi-annual courses reviewing their rights as employees, how these rights are most often violated, and how to properly assert these rights.

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/7/20/15245/3590