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#MeToo Meets McDonald’s: Fast Food Workers Strike over Rampant Sexual Harassment

(ANTIMEDIA) — Last year, the #MeToo movement sent shockwaves through industries from Hollywood and the art world to politics and tech. This week, it’s made its way to fast food. On Tuesday, hundreds of McDonald’s employees across ten U.S. cities walked out of work at lunchtime to protest what they consider ongoing, systemic sexual harassment on the job. Workers in Chicago, […]

American Inmates Stage Nationwide Prison Labor Strike over ‘Modern Slavery’

(ANTIMEDIA) — Prisoners in 17 states across the country started a two-week strike Tuesday, calling for an end to “modern slavery.” Prisoners will abstain from going to work at their jobs, halt commissary spending, engage in sit-ins, and refuse to eat. The main reason for the strike was an April prison riot at the Lee Correctional Institution in South Carolina […]