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World Service,21 May 2015,28 mins

McDonald's Workers Protest On Pay

World Business Report

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McDonald's workers and union supporters stage large protests outside the firm's Chicago headquarters, with thousands of employees demanding a minimum wage of $15 per hour. Samira Hussain reports from the company's Annual General Meeting. The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) reports that the gap between rich and poor in most developed countries is at its widest for 30 years, and it's undermining economic growth. Nobel-prize-winning economist, Professor Joseph Stiglitz, is worried and has proposed some radical solutions. And in the latest of our programmes from Israel, Roger Hearing is in the industrial hub of Haifa with a report on on the underlying religious tensions in the region and how it affects businesses there. (Picture: McDonald's pay protests Credit:Scott Olson/Getty Images)

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