There will be different sorts of actions, reflecting the different organisations and individuals participating- some
strikes, some sabotage, go slows, partial walk outs, 'phone in sick days', etc.

It will be the first ever co-ordinated, international,worker led mobilisation by the McDonalds workforce and we want you to participate too! All McDonalds workers are encouraged to rebel on that day and we are also encouraging people who do not work for McDonalds to take action in solidarity- get the message to McDonalds workers, disrupt McDonalds business...

For more information, please see:

 http://www.geocities.com/globaldayofaction

There is already quite a bit of information on this site and it is where we will post reports of actions as we receive them on October 16th.

To make sure this works, please let us know if you're planning an action, and then send us a report. Please send e-mails to both:
 reports@mwr.org.uk
 globaldayofaction@yahoo.co.uk
Or, from the 10th we can be reached by phone on:
(00) 44) 07732 531 196

Workers who are getting up to mischief on the 16th are reminded that, although taking part need not endanger your employment, if what you're planning to do could potentially go wrong and result in dismissal, then it's worth getting any money you're owed (like holiday pay) paid through before the 16th.

A leaflet is being designed which will soon be on the
 http://www.geocities.com/globaldayofaction website.
Please feel free to print it out and distribute to your workmates or workers at your local store. The idea is to have the international text (produced by some of our comrades in France) as a common text on all leaflets, and then a local text, specific to the situation where you work or live, or to a particular organisation. So, we have also produced an MWR text, which follows after the international text at the end of this e-mail. The international text will be signed by a few of the organisations supporting the day. If your organisation supports the mobilisation and would
like to be added to the signatories, please get in touch as soon as possible.

In solidarity,

McDonalds Workers Resistance

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Only fighting will win !

Today is the date of the first ever co-ordinated
international mobilisation by the McDonalds workforce. Today is the day that we say 'enough is enough' to exploitation and low wages. Today is the day that we throw a spanner in the works of McDonalds profit machine.

We, the organizations undersigned, have decided during an international conference that took place in Essen (Germany) "2002" and in subsequent discussions, that this 16th october will be an international day of struggle for improved working conditions and salaries in which we invite the participation of all McDonalds workers.

This is why colleagues, we intervene in your restaurant- because all over the world the McDonald's multinational exploits young workers for miserable wages in harder and harder working conditions. McDonald's makes every effort to prevent us from organazing and constituting unions because they know such organisations allow us to oppose the corporate dictatorship that benefits only the employers and
treats us with contempt.

But today this strategy is failing: Everywhere we are
organizing- in associations (McDonald's Workers Resistance), or in unions (CGT Spain, CNT-France, IWW-USA, IWW Australia). For many years our organization and struggle has been increasing, today we find a new unity and internationalism.

NO MORE SHALL WE ENDURE MODERN DAY SLAVERY !

TODAY, 16TH october, WE HAVE HAD ENOUGH !

FOR AN INTERNATIONAL SOLIDARITY ! ! !

FOR THE UNITY OF ALL THE McDONALD'S WORKERS ! !


Signatories :


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October 16th 2002

October 16th is world anti-McDonalds day, it's also the date of the first ever co-ordinated international mobilisation by the McDonald's workforce. This maybe the first you've heard of the international networks of McDonalds workers that work together to advance our interests and to confront the exploitation and greed of McDonalds... you will hear a lot more over the next few years.

What's happening?

McDonalds workers in the UK, across continental Europe, Russia, North America and Canada are working together to protest against our low wages, poor working conditions and McDonalds attempts at preventing us from organising. Some workers will go on strike or take the day off, others will work, but very slowly, and some will sabotage their shifts by giving away free food, stealing from the tills or
damaging equipment. If you want to be part of it, do something, make sure it's not business as usual, and let us know about it- by e-mail to both  reports@mwr.org.uk and  globaldayofaction@yahoo.co.uk
or by phone to: ((00) 44) 07732 531 196
Let's take our first steps towards freedom together!

Anything else?

If Ocotber 16th is a protest we hope it will also be a celebration of our new found unity, internationalism and rebellion. So use the excuse to get together with your workmates for a few drinks, bongs, cups of coffee... make friends in kitchen, make trouble on tills, make love in the stockroom.

Why?

Because we are sick of low wages and dire conditions... Because we object to McDonalds' environmental destruction and emotional manipulation of children... Because working for McDonalds is boring and pointless... Because we are not so stupid as to work our asses off just to make someone else rich... Because the workers united are more powerful than they can possibly imagine.

What are we achieveing?

We are showing ourselves and the world that we are capable of organising internationally and that we are not powerless in the face of multi-national corporations- that in fact it is us who make their billions and we are willing and able to fight back. We are showing ourselves and the world that there is a young generation of workers, passionate and
rebellious, who refuse to live like past generations- we will not surrender a piece of our lives to an idiotic pursuit of wealth on behalf of those who already have too much.

Ocotber 16th is our day, we are taking it back from the bosses... be part of it.

 http://www.mwr.org.uk
MWR, PO Box 3828, Glasgow, G41 1YU