SEIU’s Fight for $15 Overlooks its Own Scandals in Attack on McDonald’s

Over the weekend, McDonald’s announced that its CEO Steve Easterbrook would be leaving the company, following a “consensual relationship with an employee that violated company policy.”

If Easterbrook violated the rules, McDonald’s was right to ask him to leave. What’s not right is how the Fight for $15 movement — which is spearheaded by the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) — has jumped on this opportunity to decry McDonald’s culture as “rotten from top to bottom.” Fight for $15 has no place slinging accusations against another organization, given the sordid behavior of its own staff.

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