Fast Food Workers Plan Nationwide Protest Over Wages

Fast-food workers are staging a one-day strike in more than 100 cities and protests in a hundred more this week to call for increasing wages to $15 per hour., Set for Dec. 5, these actions come one year after 200 employees of New York City fast-food restaurants went on a single-day strike in 2012. Now groups like Fast Food Forward and Fight For 15, aligned with the Service Employees International Union, are drawing attention to statistics showing that employees of McDonald’s, Wendy’s and other chain stores do not make enough money to live on. , Some reports estimate that taxpayers dole out $7 billion annually to low-wage employees who use federal services like food stamps and Medicaid to make ends meet.