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On the Clock is Motherboard's reporting on the organized labor movement, gig work, automation, and the future of work.
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"I think one of the things that we are thinking about...is in our company-owned restaurants, how do we think about what the pay and benefits package need to look like for us to make sure that we're able to get the people that we need," Kempczinski said. "We're working through what some changes in our company-owned restaurants might look like from a wages and compensation perspective," Erlinger added. Earlier this year, a Motherboard investigation revealed that McDonald's has a secret intel team that has spied on its workers in the Fight for $15 campaign for years using social media monitoring tools, labelling the group at a security threat. In response, the Fight for $15 movement, which is backed by the Service Employees International Union (SEIU), filed federal charges against McDonald's, for "unlawful surveillance of workers and union organizers participating in the Fight for $15 campaign, using tactics including extensive monitoring of social media activity." An investigation is ongoing.
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