In yet another major flop for the biggest fast food chain in the world, currently facing its worst moment financially in more than a decade, now McDonald's Brazil workers have stepped up to demand the same things their United States counterparts are, as they complain about the chain's low wages and poor work conditions.
The unionization phenomenon has expanded almost as fast as the company's franchised operations, and now it's expanding further from the U.S. and the United Kingdom all the way to Latin America, as McDonald's Brazil workers take to the country's senate to speak out against the working conditions the fast food chain has in the South American country.
According to The Guardian, McDonald's Brazil employees have followed the lead of its northern counterparts when workers, politicians and trade unionists from five different continents went to Brasilia to speak in the country's senate against the poor working conditions the fast food chain offers.
As The New York Times reports, while for the last three years McDonald's workers have focused their goals on local U.S. stores, this new occurrence against McDonald's Brazil is a giant step towards a more comprehensive management of the company, as workers attempt to unionize to raise wages and organize employees all over the world.
The hope is that, by bringing in further regulators such as the ones in Brazil, the international McDonald's will be forced to change its way of managing its relationship with employees.
According to Reuters, one of the claims made by McDonald's Brazil workers is that the franchise has denied their workers extra time pay, besides the international issue of not allowing them to unionize and employing teenagers in kitchens without the proper protective equipment.
The hearings will continue regarding McDonald's Brazil operations, as witnesses try to get the country's senate to investigate the company's labor practices further - but that'll need at least 80 lawmakers to sign after concrete evidence of abuse.
