article_snippet: McDonald's workers in 19 cities have filed complaints over burns from popping grease, a lack of protective equipment and other workplace hazards, according to labor organizers.
article_snippet: complaints over burns from popping grease are the latest move in an ongoing campaign to win pay of $15 an hour and unionization for fast-food workers by publicly pressuring McDonald to come to the bargaining table.
article_snippet: On the job: McDonald workers in 19 cities have filed complaints over burns from popping grease, a lack of protective equipment and other workplace hazards, according to labor organizers (stock image)
article_snippet: : The complaints are the latest move in an ongoing campaign to win pay of $15 an hour and unionization for fast-food workers by publicly pressuring McDonald's to come to the bargaining table .
article_snippet: In a statement, McDonald's Corp. said the company and McDonald's Corp. independent franchisees are committed to providing safe working conditions for employees, and will review the allegations. '
article_snippet: It is important to note that these complaints are part of a larger strategy orchestrated by activists targeting our brand and designed to generate media coverage,' Heidi Barker Sa Shekhem, a McDonald's spokeswoman, said in a statement.
article_snippet: The complaints extend a central theme of the 'Fight for $15' campaign, which has been to hold McDonald's accountable for working conditions at McDonald franchised locations.
article_snippet: Kendall Fells, organizing director for Fight for $15, said the injuries at franchised and company-owned restaurants mostly came about because understaffing and employees being told to work too quickly - both of which he said were the result of a computer system that tracks sales and staffing metrics.
article_snippet: Fells noted that workers are looking at every way workers can hold McDonald's's accountable, and that workplace injuries are just the latest issue
highlights_snippet: McDonald's workers in 19 cities have filed complaints over workplace hazards, according to labor organizers .
  
highlights_snippet: In a statement, McDonald said the company and McDonald franchisees are committed to providing safe working conditions, and will review allegations .