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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsMcDonald’s Management’s Response to Workers’ Burns on the Job: “Just Put Some Mustard On It”
(In These Times) If accusations of poverty wages, racial discrimination, sexual harassment and rampant wage theft werent enough, McDonalds workers also say they bare the brunt of hazardous conditions on the job. On Monday, workers across 19 cities filed 28 health and safety complaints with the federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) and other state agencies.
As a part of the national campaign Fight for 15, an effort backed by the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) to organize for a $15 per hour minimum wage, the low-wage workers say that understaffing combined with pressure from management to work at breakneck speeds has created a dangerous work environment where workers routinely suffer severe burns and other injuries.
Although a McDonalds spokesperson claimed the complaints are part of a larger strategy orchestrated by activists targeting [the McDonalds] brand and designed to generate media coverage, a survey conducted by Hart Research Associates on behalf of the National Council for Occupational Safety and Health affirmed the grievances. The survey found that 79% of fast food workers had been burned on the job in the past year, and of those, almost all of them reported multiple burns over that same time.
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In a video produced by the campaign, two workers tell stories of going to management after receiving burns while working. Management's response, according to both workers, was to apply mustard to the wounds. ..............(more)
http://inthesetimes.com/working/entry/17754/mcdonalds_working_conditions1
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McDonald’s Management’s Response to Workers’ Burns on the Job: “Just Put Some Mustard On It” (Original Post)
marmar
Mar 2015
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Burn Relief with Yellow Mustard , apparantly there is some relief in mustard
Romeo.lima333
Mar 2015
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Romeo.lima333
(1,127 posts)1. Burn Relief with Yellow Mustard , apparantly there is some relief in mustard
Bettie
(16,089 posts)2. It is the vinegar
vinegar actually does help with burns.
The cheaper the mustard, the more vinegar it contains, plus if it is cold it will take the heat out.
ETA: But McD's should have safer practices for their employees. Unfortunately, it might take three pennies out of their bottom line.
Coventina
(27,101 posts)3. Because grilled meat is improved with a tasty sauce!!
gollygee
(22,336 posts)4. That's what my grandma would say to do for minor burns
Not huge burns obviously but I don't think mustard is an unusual remedy for burns. It's the vinegar and the turmeric I think.