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Fast-food workers set for biggest strike yet in $15-an-hour crusade

Fast-food workers in nearly 300 cities plan to walk out at 6 a.m. Tuesday in a bid to leverage their crusade for a $15-an-hour wage and sway the 2016 presidential election. The group representing ... read more

Mpls. Fast-Food Workers To Strike Tuesday For $15 An Hour

MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) – Fast-food workers in Minneapolis plan to strike and risk arrest Tuesday as part of a nationwide push to raise wages to $15 an hour. The strike will start at 6 a.m. at the ... read more

Fast food workers strike nationwide for $15/hr - CBS News

"$10 an hour, can't do anything," home health worker Sonia Duncan told CBS New York. "$15 an hour will go a good way." "We need a living wage," said fast food worker Jorel Ware. "We want to be ... read more

Fast food workers are striking for $15 an hour in 15 cities

Fast food workers in 15 cities across the country went on a one-day strike on February 16, to demand that their employers—including McDonald’s, Burger King, and Wendy’s—pay them $15 an ... read more

Fast-food workers strike, call for $15/hour - KMBC Channel 9

Fast-food workers in Kansas City went on strike early Tuesday. Workers are calling to be paid $15 an hour. ... Fast-food workers strike, call for $15/hour. read more

Fast food workers strike - CNN Business

Fast-food workers walked off their jobs in dozens of cities on Thursday, demanding a $15-an-hour minimum wage. Workers joined protest marches in New York City, Philadelphia, Boston, Raleigh, N.C ... read more

Workers strike in 15 cities to demand $15/hour minimum wage

Story at a glance. Fast food workers across the country went on strike on Feb. 16 for a $15 minimum wage and better working conditions. Organized by Fight For 15, the strike was also a protest in ... read more

Arrests as Fast Food Workers Strike Across the Country for $15 an Hour

"There has to be civil disobedience because workers don't see any other way to get $15 an hour and a union," Kendall Fells, organizing director of the organizing group Fast Food Forward, told USA ... read more

Fast-food workers nationwide strike for $15 minimum wage - The Hill

Fast-food workers in 15 cities around the country will be walking out Friday in a strike for the federal government to increase the national minimum wage to $15 an hour. read more

Fast-food Workers' Strike for $15 an hour could have negative consequences - Washington Examiner

Fast-food employees in metropolitan cities nationwide have decided to walk off the job today in protest of higher wages. The workers, many of whom make the federal minimum wage of $7.25 an hour ... read more

Detroit fast-food workers strike for $15-an-hour wage

The workers in Michigan join thousands across the U.S. in push — timed to upcoming election — to raise minimum wage. ... Detroit fast-food workers strike for $15-an-hour wage. read more

LA Fast-Food Workers Join Nationwide Strike to Demand $15 Per Hour

The workers are demanding a pay increase to $15 an hour -- federal minimum wage is $7.25 per hour, California's minimum rate is $8 per hour -- and the right to form a union without retaliation or ... read more