Momentum mobilises local members to picket McDonald’s stores as part of a nationwide fast food strike.
Momentum members organise pickets and creative direct actions outside McDonald’s outlets in cities across the country, including in Chester, Sheffield, Newcastle and London, in support of workers calling for £10 an hour, an end to precarious contracts and for their right to join a union.
The ‘Fast Food Shut Down’, organised by the BFAWU and Unite the Union, saw McDonald’s workers walking out in coordination with Wetherspoons and TGI Fridays workers while Uber Eats and Deliveroo couriers also went on strike. The action was the first multi-workforce, national-scale hospitality industry strike in a generation, with many workers striking for the first time.