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McDonald's strikers from the US arrive in Britain for three days today as part of a global tour about their fight to be paid $15 (£9.48) an hour.
Workers from the fast-food chain's New York, Chicago and Los Angeles outlets will travel to eight countries across three continents with the goal of enlisting other fast-food workers in their struggle for higher pay and better union rights.
Food workers' union BFAWU, which has launched the Fast Food Rights campaign, is hosting the delegation in Britain including Jorel Ware and Flavia Cabra - two New York-based McDonald's workers.
They will be in Glasgow in today from 7.30pm at STUC headquarters in Woodlands Road.
On Friday they will be speaking at Thompsons conference at TUC headquarters in Great Russell Street, London, from 2pm.
"This trip is about learning from each other, strengthening the ties between American fast-food workers and our colleagues abroad, and building our movement globally," said Moses Brooks, a cashier and cook from California who relies on food stamps to get by.
On Saturday the visitors will take their story to Unite the Resistance's "striking together and organising to win" national conference from 12noon at Bloomsbury Central Baptist Church in Shaftesbury Avenue, London.
