Fast Food, Slim wages

US fast-food workers stage nationwide strike in protest at low wages | World news | The Guardian: "US workers in the fast-food industry staged a one-day strike in dozens of cities on Thursday, calling for better wages and the right to unionise.

The strike was the largest so far in a 10-month campaign that began with 200 workers striking in New York last November, and which spread to Detroit and Chicago in July.

Organisers said the strikes, scheduled a day after the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington and a few days before Labor Day, were being held in 60 cities and had spread to the south – including Tampa and Raleigh – and the west, with workers in Los Angeles and San Francisco taking part.

In New York, the Democratic mayoral hopeful Christine Quinn took part in a march with several hundred workers and protesters before entering a McDonald's near the Empire State Building on Thursday morning.

Local organisers in Detroit said at least three stores had been shut down because of the strikes. One was a Checkers restaurant; the other two were Church's chicken restaurants."

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