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Microsoft bags $10bn Pentagon contract for JEDI ‘war cloud’ project, edging out presumed frontrunner Amazon
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US nuclear bombs at Turkish airbase complicate rift over Syria invasion
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‘Isis Version Two’
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Arbetare protesterar mot McDonalds
Hundratals demonstranter marscherade idag in på McDonalds campus i USA för att protestera mot företagets dåliga löner.
Innan protesterna startade så utrymde polisen MC Donalds huvudkontor i delstaten Illinois.
Demonstranterna vill att företaget ska betala 15 dollar i minimilön per timme vilket är dubbelt så mycket som lagstadgad minimilön i USA. En minimilön som Obama vill ska höjas från 7,25 dollar per timme till 10 dollar per timme men han möter hårt motstånd.
Protesterna stängde en av de fem byggnader inom området där det arbetar 3,000 MC Donalds anställda.
En vanlig anställd på MC Donalds tjänar per år 18,400 dollar om personen arbetar 40 timmar per vecka. Företagets vd Don Thompson kvitterade förra året ut 9.5 miljoner dollar.
I förra veckan samordnades en demonstration av tusentals snabbmatsanställda inom flera olika företag i 250 amerikanska städer för att vissa sitt missnöje mot de dåliga lönerna och de svårigheter som de för med sig.
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