McDonald’s has a secret intel team that spies on its own workers, report says

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Is your employer spying on you and tracking your movements online? This might be something you would expect if you work for the CIA or Google – who tracks pretty much everyone, employee or not – but many fast food workers were surprised to learn that McDonald’s has been using a secret intel team to spy on its workers.

An expose by Motherboard revealed that McDonald’s has established a team of “intelligence analysts” who are tasked with spying on its employees to find out if they are involved in a popular movement seeking a minimum wage hike.

At the heart of the controversy is the “Fight For $15” movement. The group seeks to raise the federal minimum wage to $15 per hour and is active on social media. The fast food chain has been internally labeling employees who are working with the group as a security threat and has been spying on them and monitoring their behavior online.

They’ve set up a team of intelligence analysts working out of Chicago and London to identify which of their workers are active in the movement and who they are working alongside to organize protests and strikes or try to create unions.

A $15 minimum wage hike is part of Joe Biden’s proposed $1.9 trillion COVID-19 stimulus package, although that aspect of the bill has become a major sticking point and may not pass. The federal minimum wage has been sitting at $7.25 per hour for more than a decade.

McDonald’s is reportedly particularly concerned about workers who want the right to join unions like the Service Employees International Union, or SEIU, along with higher pay and better working conditions.