Posted on 09/19/2018 7:28:02 PM PDT by lowbridge
Last summer Tanya Harrell was working in McDonald’s in Gretna, Louisiana, when she says a co-worker started making unwanted sexual advances.
A colleague she occasionally gave lifts to started touching her inappropriately at work, grabbing her breasts and backside and asking her to touch his penis. “I felt totally exposed, as if I did not have a skin or shell. I felt like I was outside my own body, watching what was happening,” she said in a complaint filed with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC).
When she complained Harrell said her managers did not take it seriously and suggested there was some kind of relationship between the two and she should take it to the “next level”. She was told she was acting “like a little girl” and was childish to complain about it.
After these incidents another co-worker took her into the men’s bathroom, pinned her against a wall, exposed himself and tried to have sex with her. She burst into tears and was saved only when a manager called for the worker. Harrell never reported the incident because she said her previous complaints had fallen on deaf ears.
On Tuesday Harrell and hundreds of other McDonald’s workers will protest outside the fast-food giant’s restaurants in 10 cities across the US, highlighting what they claim is an epidemic of sexual harassment for workers that they say the company has done little to address.
Workers in Chicago, McDonald’s home town, Durham, Kansas City, Los Angeles, Miami, Milwaukee, New Orleans, Orlando, San Francisco and St Louis will all walk out at lunchtime in an effort to highlight their struggle and call on the company to take action.
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Last summer Tanya Harrell was working in McDonald’s in Gretna, Louisiana, when she says a co-worker started making unwanted sexual advances.
I am pretty sure I have dined in that place. Not far from where the old Jefferson Furniture store used to be (now Wooden Things, I think).
Just give them $15/hr and they’ll be fine.
Things are getting wackier by the hour.
They won’t be happy until all decency and humanity is erased and we’re all robots.
Welcome my son, welcome to the Machine (that replaces you)
Probably assembles the stuff on my burger in a tidy manner anyway, so, begone!
Flimsy pretext for union goonery
Fire them
Every last one.
I suspect that the men who work in fast food places really are no good.
Hmm. Walked out? Are they members of a union? No? Well...you all have 10 seconds to get back to work or you’re fired. Linger and protest and you’ll be arrested. Plenty of young people looking for jobs.
Only FF place I visit, now, ie C-F-A.
McD’s workers walk out in protest of McD not automating fast enough.
I’ve known people in the service industry who had to deal with a sexually aggressive lesbian boss who would get the new waitresses to go ‘for drinks’ after work, bed them awhile, and when the relationship soured they would be fired.
But #MeToo is just about male bashing
#MEMEMEMEMEMETOO
Robots can’t get here soon enough
Well, yeah. That’s the goal.
I’m lovin it... behind the deep fat fryer.
Eating at McDonald's is not 'dining'
They are being replaced store by store with “kiosks” even as they protest. Were I flipping McD burgers I would stay on the job in the hope that I could get a position as the sole employee in charge of keeping the machinery adjusted and the kiosk clean or something. That amount of forethought would, however, likely disqualify me from working at one of those places, anyway.
More likely they are union members who are paid to stage a protest outside and not even employees of the business.
This sort of protest goes on more than you’d think
Shakedown Street isn’t just an album by the Grateful Dead.
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