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Workers take part in a US-wide protest in May against low wages paid by fast food firms. Photograph: Kim Kulish/Corbis


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Fast food workers plan biggest US strike to date over minimum wage
Workers from McDonald’s, Burger King and other chains to hold walkout protest on Thursday as battle to unionise escalates

Dominic Rushe in New York

America’s fast food workers are planning their biggest strike to date this Thursday, with a nationwide walkout in protest at low wages and poor healthcare.

The strike is the latest in a series of increasingly heated confrontations between fast food firms and their workers. Pressure is also mounting on McDonald’s, the largest fast food company, over its relations with its workers and franchisees.

Workers from McDonald’s, Burger King, Pizza Hut and other large chains will strike on Thursday and are planning protests outside stores nationwide, in states including California, Missouri, Wisconsin and New York.

The day of disruption is being coordinated by local coalitions and Fast Food Forward and Fight for 15, union-backed pressure groups which have called for the raising of the minimum wage to $15 an hour for the nation’s four million fast-food workers.

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