McDonald’s Wins High-Stakes Labor Battle With Help From White House
Board led by Trump appointees overrules judge in case that threatened business model
Demonstrators march during a rally near McDonald's headquarters in Oak Brook, Illinois, on May 20, 2015.
Photographer: Daniel AckerIn a television commercial that’s become part of the lore surrounding Donald Trump’s affinity for McDonald’s Corp., he embraced a purple, lumpy denizen of the fast-food chain’s “McDonaldland” and said, “Together, Grimace, we could own this town.”
He was talking about New York, not Washington. Yet on Thursday, some 17 years after he appeared in that spot for the “Big ’N’ Tasty” sandwich, President Trump’s appointees delivered a high-stakes political victory for McDonald’s in one of the most important labor disputes in decades.