Why are you people making an issue out of the working conditions
in McDs when the reality is that if you had your way, these
people wouldn't have a job at all?Isn't it your agenda to close the whole corporation down? Making
an issue of working conditions of those in employment is
somewhat hypocritical in the light of that fact.______________________________
McSpotlight replies:
We feel it's important to investigate and portray the reality of
what's going on around us, especially behind the closed doors of
Corporations - to understand the effects they are having on our
lives, our communities and our planet. Armed with such information
people are better able to weigh up the situation and to decide for
themselves whether multinationals etc are something society would
be better off without IN THE LONG TERM. Meanwhile, in the here and
now, the aim is to encourage people to fight for their rights - as
workers trying to improve their pay and conditions, as parents
trying to protect their kids from being brainwashed etc etc. The
labour movement has always fought for workers' rights, and workers
are always threatened by their employers (and the media) that
'things will get worse' if they take any action. The truth is that
things get BETTER precisely because people DO take action.Isn't it impossible to separate one part of the jigsaw from the
whole picture? If people get organised to stand up for what's
right - to defend forests, to resist new stores etc - eventually
the balance of power will swing away from the rich and powerful
who control things now, and concentrate in the hands of
ordinary people. Then it will be up to people together to create
a society worth living in, without oppression and exploitation.