Economics

Fast-Food Workers To Walk Out, Demand Doubling of Pay

Workers at McDonald's, Burger King, Wendy's and KFC in seven cities participating

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Don't expect to have it your way today at some fast-food restaurants across the country.

Workers at the nation's best known fast-food restaurants in seven cities across America are planning to walk off the job Monday to protest what they say are wages that are too low to live on. In a move orchestrated with the help of powerful labor unions and clergy groups, the workers plan to strike for a day to demand their wages be doubled.