IRA and mcdonalds...

[joko]

in the 80s theres was an outcry because people believed that mcdonalds were donating a portion of their employees wages to the IRA - as somewhere on their payslips it said IRA and then an amount of money

some people went mad about this...then it was denounced as nonsense and that IRA actually stood for something else, such as Inland Revenue something...or Income...etc (not sure what it was exactly)

but still people fed the rumour, by passing it round...even when theyd heard the other explanation, they wanted to spread it....

i have heard a few people recently actually still believe this and still boycott mcdonalds because of it...they also now claim the so-called 'true explanation' was just a cover up...

so id like to know - was there any truth in this? even remotely?

i find it very hard to believe that a large company like mcdonalds would donate to the IRA, openly or secretly, and furthermore, that they would be so stupid as to print it on their payslips...

thanks

[joko]

VHG, try also failbook.org ...

[Kathyeray77]

Ira stood for individual retirement account, McDonald's company pensions