#641-The History Of McDonald's Labor Exploitation & more

Moment of Clarity

Lee Camp

News Commentary, Comedy, News

4.8 • 671 Ratings

🗓️ 8 June 2021

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

McDonald's workers have filed a lawsuit against their employer and taken strike actions over low pay and mistreatment during this pandemic. Lee Camp looks into the fast food behemoth's exploitative business practices. From low wages, to their wage theft schemes, to using prison labor to make employee uniforms, to the factory farming that grows their meat, and the consumerist junk they use to market their Happy Meals the entire business model of McDonald's reflects the exploitative nature of the capitalist system it thrives in.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Redact their money, but we've got our soul.
0:07.0	Let's roll, let's roll, never get their control.
0:12.0	It's ain't got their money, but we've got our soul.
0:16.0	Welcome to Redacted Tonight.
0:19.0	This is the comedy show where Americans in America covering American
0:22.4	news are called foreign agents. Last month, thousands of McDonald's workers walked off the job in
0:30.2	Los Angeles, Oakland, Sacramento, Miami, Tampa, et cetera, et cetera. I don't want to say all these cities and Fayetteville.
0:40.2	And I stood in solidarity with those workers.
0:44.5	Standing was a stark contrast to the position I was in.
0:47.4	Last time I ate McDonald's, I was seated for the better part of a day.
0:51.5	But I did get a lot of reading done.
0:53.2	Almost got through the entire list of ingredients
0:55.3	of a chicken mcdugget.
0:56.7	It was, it gets really thrilling after chapter three,
0:59.7	to be honest with you.
1:01.0	So I guess you could say my digestive tract
1:03.6	has been boycotting McDonald's
1:05.4	since roughly 2004.
1:07.8	But the truth is, the company that supposedly provides happy meals has been abusing their
1:13.6	workers for decades now.
1:15.6	Besides this latest strike due to the fact that Mickey Dees doesn't pay their workers jack shit,
1:20.6	there were also the 52 black workers who filed a lawsuit against McDonald's because of racial discrimination.
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