Economics

Fast Food Workers Attempt Strike in New York City

Goes about as well as you might think

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As the Black Friday Walmart strike grabbed the media's attention over the last month, an army of full-time organizers were laboring quietly to launch another historic labor action.

A lead organizer claimed "hundreds" of fast food workers across New York City were walking off the job on Thursday, in what experts are calling the first multi-restaurant strike by fast food workers in the country.

"No more lies, Hold the fries," shouted a few dozen protesters outside a Burger King by Penn Station on Thursday, bundled up against a brisk New York November day — at least half of whom appeared to be organizers, as opposed to workers. "Supersize our wages," they chanted.