McDonalds: Fast-Food Workers

fast-food workers: Organizers say thousands of fast-food workers are set to stage walkouts in dozens of cities around the country Thursday, part of a push to get chains such as McDonalds, Taco Bell and Wendys to pay workers higher wages, according to 660 News. Thursdays planned walkouts follow a series of strikes that began last November in New York City, then spread to cities including Chicago, Detroit and Seattle. Workers say they want $15 an hour, which would be about $31,000 a year for full-time employees. Thats more than double the federal minimum wage, which many fast food workers make, of $7.25 an hour, or $15,000 a year and NEW YORK, N.Y. Fast-food customers in search of burgers and fries might run into striking workers instead. Its expected be the largest nationwide strike by fast-food workers, according to organizers. The biggest effort so far was over the summer when about 2,200 of the nations millions of fast-food workers staged a one-day strike in seven cities. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.