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Striking Workers

striking workers: NEW YORK Fast-food customers in search of burgers and fries on Thursday might run into striking workers instead, according to The Chronicle Herald. 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 and Organizers say thousands of fast-food workers are set to stage walkouts in dozens of cities around the country, part of a push to get chains such as McDonalds , Taco Bell and Wendy s to pay workers higher wages. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.