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April 15, 2015

Fast-Food & Other Low-Wage Workers Stage Nationwide Day of Action 
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Protests are being held across the country today in what organizers call
the "largest-ever mobilization of underpaid workers." Fast-food workers
in 230 cities are walking off the job as part of the "Fight for $15"
campaign, a push for a $15-an-hour minimum wage. Hundreds of workers in
Boston held their action one day early in deference to today's
anniversary of the Boston Marathon bombings. In New York City, the day
of protest kicked off this morning at a Mc Donald's in Brooklyn.
Students will also walk out at more than 200 schools in what is being
described as the "biggest campus protests since the anti-apartheid
movement." The students and fast-food workers will be joined by low-wage
employees from other fields and businesses, including home care, child
care, airport and Wal-Mart.