Via America’s Lawyer: In a win for workers, a McDonald’s franchise in CA agrees to settle a 2020 lawsuit by providing its employees proper PPE, paid sick leave, and improved restaurant sanitization. Mike Papantonio and Farron Cousins discuss more.
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Finally tonight, some good news. A McDonald's franchise has agreed to a major settlement that could have nationwide implications for fast food workers in the COVID era. Farron Cousins joins me again to talk about this case. You know, I remember we did a story early on in this, I don't know if we talked about this, but McDonald's was handing out dog diapers and they were handing out coffee filters to their employees to use as masks.
Right.
Do you remember this?
It was truly sickening.
Yeah.
And of course, you know, they, at the same time, letting their employees get assaulted for telling customers, you had to wear a mask. But so this is a really great decision here. You've got this, it's a single franchise out in California, but it does have nationwide impacts here because they finally agreed, okay, listen, we'll give you real masks. We'll give you the latex gloves. We'll give you paid sick leave. Which is huge.
Really, that's a big victory. That's a big.
Very huge.
Yeah.
And so hopefully, we've already seen some inklings that the whole McDonald's corporation may start moving in this direction. There is a big fight to try to make that happen.
14,000 US, 14,000 McDonald's in the US. It's like a super spreader.
It really is. And so if we can get these people protected, you know, they already have a difficult job where they're treated insanely poorly. We have talked about the abuse they suffer plenty of times. So this is a great step for them and a victory for workers.
It's come a long way only from, from lawsuits. That's the only reason.
It is.
Lawyers saying, government won't do it. Let me step in. Thank you for joining me. Okay.
Thank you.
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