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US fast-food workers plan strike to demand $15-an-hour minimum wage – The Guardian
Walkouts planned at restaurants owned by mega-corporations in more than a dozen cities ‘for racial and economic justice’
Fast-food workers from more than a dozen US cities are striking on Friday to demand the federal minimum be increased to $15 an hour.
Ahead of Mondays holiday honoring American civil rights leader the Rev Dr Martin Luther King Jr, the group known as Fight for 15 said workers from mega-corporations including McDonalds and Starbucks had been encouraged to walk off their jobs on what would have been Kings 92nd birthday on 15 January.
Karesha Manns, a Memphis McDonalds worker said in a statement that…
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