benny once told me this story about when he was a BLF official in the early 70s building the first mcdonalds restaurants in australia, and the union found out that mcdonalds intended to pay their employees below minimum wage https://twitter.com/cfmeu_cg/status/1387993392705982465

benny and the BLF ordered a strike on all mcdonalds worksites. then one night he gets woken up at 3am by a phone call. some guy with an american accent introduces himself and starts asking what it’ll take to get construction happening again

benny yells “get fucked cunt, i’m asleep” and slams the phone down, not know that he was talking to global mcdonalds CEO ray kroc. anyway, thanks to benny and others they secured a wage agreement with mcdonalds in australia. he was a great friend and comrade and i’ll miss him