BOLIVIA: FURY AFTER ARMY ORDERS PRESIDENT OUT n Morales slams ‘racist coup-plotters’ n Jeremy Corbyn denounces coup PAGES n Mexico condemns OAS ‘silence’ 4, 7, 8-9 for Peace and Socialism £1.20 Tuesday November 12 2019 Proudly owned by our readers | Incorporating the Daily Worker | Est 1930 | morningstaronline.co.uk McDonald’s strike: ‘Join a union and improve your life’ Workers to walk out at six outlets today in demand for £15 an hour by Marcus Barnett option of having guaranteed hours of BFAWU general secretary Ronnie She also criticised McDonald’s CEO up to 40 hours a week and an end to Draper said: “McDonald’s workers are Steve Easterbrook, who was given a youth rates of pay. showing the way. “golden goodbye” in the form of a MCDONALD’S workers have said they They also want shift patterns to “They’ve challenged and defeated $42 million (£33 mil- will “stand together and win” as a be given to workers four weeks in bullying by managers. They’ve won lion) pay out strike of low-paid employees today will advance, union recognition in the changes making life at work more when he disrupt business at the corporation. workplace and the right to be treated bearable. was sacked Employees in six of the global food with respect by management, as part of “My message to every worker is this: for having chain’s London branches, who are a “New Deal” for McDonald’s workers. if you want to improve your workplace an affair members of the Bakers, Food and Numerous senior Labour figures and your life, join a union. Participate. with an Allied Workers’ Union (BFAWU), will and parliamentary candidates are Stand together and win.” employee. be manning picket lines across the expected to join the protest, includ- Former TGI Fridays striker Lauren Turn to city today. ing shadow chancellor John McDon- Townsend, who will be joining strik- page 2 The strike is expected to close the nell and Streatham prospective parlia- ers in Wandsworth, said: “Going on Balham, Catford, Crayford, Deptford, mentary candidate Bell Ribeiro-Addy. strike for the first time is terrifying, Downham and Wandsworth Town The strike will take place on a glo- outs in McDonald’s branches across and having support from the wider branches of the corporation, while bal fast food workers’ day of action by the country related to fair pay and labour movement and public is crucial. huge numbers of community pickets the International Union of Food work- workplace dignity caused widespread “If we are ever going to balance the are expected to pop up in solidarity ers (IUF), which will see huge demon- damage to the company’s reputation, forces at play in the world of work then across the city. strations in Brazil, Chile, France and and led to large demonstrations and we need more people to feel empow- Among the workers’ core demands New Zealand. gestures of solidarity from trade union- ered to stand up against bad bosses ‘STAND TOGETHER AND WIN’: BFAWU are a £15 an hour minimum wage, the In 2017 and 2018, a series of walk- ists and other precarious workers. and exploitative working practices.” leader Ronnie Draper’s call to arms PAGE 3 LABOUR: WE’LL HIRE MENTAL HEALTH COUNSELLOR IN EVERY SCHOOL Morning Star morningstaronline.co.uk 2 Tuesday news morningstaronline November 12 2019 @m_star_online ■ SCANDAL-HIT MP Vaz quits before he’s pushed by Lamiat Sabin suspend Mr Vaz in line with he had expressed a willing- Parliamentary Reporter the committee’s recommen- ness to buy cocaine for a dation, which meant that third prostitute. He was he would have faced an heard complaining that LEICESTER East MP Keith automatic reselection proc- he had previously “had to” Vaz will retire from Parlia- ess and possibly a recall engage in unprotected sex ment after 32 years follow- petition by constituents with another sex worker ing calls for his suspension if he had chosen to stand because the man did not by the Commons standard again. bring condoms. committee, he said on Sun- Three years ago Mr Vaz In the committee’s report day night. was involved in a scandal last month, Mr Vaz’s claims The announcement came when it emerged that he that his drink had been just weeks after the com- had off ered to buy cocaine spiked and that he had only mittee recommended that for male prostitutes. The wanted to discuss interior he receive a six-month sus- Labour MP pretended to design with the men, who he pension for causing “signifi - be an industrial washing said were decorators, were cant damage” to the house’s machine salesman called dismissed as “ludicrous.” It reputation. Jim during a Saturday night concluded that Mr Vaz had Mr Vaz was reselected as encounter with two male paid for sex. Labour’s candidate in Leices- prostitutes at his London The report also condemned ter East a few weeks before fl at, according to a secret him for claiming that he had the publication of the com- recording passed to the amnesia to avoid question- mittee’s report. Sunday Mirror. ing over the incident. MPs subsequently voted to The recording revealed that [email protected] ■ ARTS SPONSORSHIP ■ FRONT PAGE ‘A massive win’ against TOGETHER oil fi rm’s greenwashing WE’LL WIN, SCOTLAND: The family of the decision. and those of others who Sheku Bayoh feels “betrayed” Yesterday the family has have died in custody. ENVIRONMENTAL activists “massive win” for campaigners. over the decision not to met the Lord Advocate at the They will meet First praised the National Galleries She said: “It sends a clear mes- SAY MAC-D prosecute any police offi cers Crown Offi ce in Edinburgh, Minister Nicola Sturgeon of Scotland yesterday for sever- sage that it is no longer socially over his death. who told them the decision and Justice Secretary Humza ing its portrait award funding acceptable to have links with WORKERS Mr Bayoh, 32, died in 2015 not to prosecute has not Yousaf at the Scottish Parlia- ties with oil giant BP. the fossil-fuel industry because after being restrained by changed. ment today. Trustees decided that links to of their continued role in driving FROM p1: In a video offi cers responding to a call The family believes a the fossil-fuel company were “at the climate crisis and human- recorded last week for in Kirkcaldy in Fife. Scottish government-ordered SEEKING JUSTICE: Solicitor odds” with the galleries’ commit- rights abuses across the world. the Morning Star, striker In October last year the full public inquiry – not a Aamer Anwar arrives at the ment to combat climate change. “We hope that the few Melissa Evans said: Crown decided against fatal accident inquiry as is Crown Offi ce in Edinburgh with The organisation, which over- remaining institutions that “£15 is what economists bringing any prosecutions typically held into deaths in family members of the late sees several arts institutions, allow themselves to be used say you need to live in over his death but the family police custody – is needed to Sheku Bayoh, including his is the latest to distance itself as greenwash for the industry London. invoked the right to review get answers about his death mother Aminata (left) from oil giants after Shell was join the National Galleries on the “The whole country is snubbed by the National Thea- right side of history.” being underpaid right tre and the Royal Shakespeare A BP spokesman claimed that now. Something has to be Company dropped BP. “attempts to exclude companies changed at the base level. Alys Mumford of BP or not committed to being a part of the “This is a global fi ght BP? Scotland called the decision energy transition are exactly – we are all getting “extremely signifi cant” and a what is not needed.” together as McDonald’s ■ POLITICS workers around the world. We are going on strike and we will ■ THINK TANK REPORT win.” Mr McDonnell said: BREXITEERS WILL “Low pay and insecure Politicians and press eagerly work is endemic in the fast food industry. ‘swallow business’s myths’ “That’s why I helped launch the fast food STEP ASIDE FOR 300 A REPORT aiming to debunk sary. Such claims are used campaign and support political myths about how to deny proper rights for these young workers doing what businesses want workers and to reduce the in their campaign to is good for the economy has infl uence of working people secure decent wages and been published. in politics, the report found. conditions. Titled The Mythology of The report’s author David “A Labour government TORIES IN ELECTION Business, the report by the Whyte said: “If there is one will take on the big Institute for Employment thing business organisations corporations such as Dangers for Labour as Farage remains true to form and ‘bottles it’ Rights and the Centre for are particularly good at, it is McDonald’s to stop them Labour and Social Studies deceiving us into thinking from paying out poverty by Peter Lazenby Party will still stand in every general secretary Rob Griffi ths (Class) addresses commonly that they are indispensable wages.” Labour-held seat. said: “It is entirely in keeping held notions that businesses to a healthy and developed The party has Labour shadow education sec- with Nigel Farage’s right-wing know best for a healthy econ- society. also committed to a BREXIT PARTY mouthpiece retary Angela Rayner tweeted: political history that he wants omy. “But the social contribu- £10-an-hour real living Nigel Farage declared yester- “Nigel Farage has bottled it and the Tories to win the general The labour movement tions that businesses make wage and an end to day that more than 300 Tory now morphed into the hard- election.