Photos: Fast Food workers fight for higher wages
August 29, 2013
NORTHGLENN, CO-August, 2013: Mary Glenn, left, joined other protesters asking for better wages for fast food workers stand outside a McDonald's in Northglenn, August 29, 2013. The asking rate is $15 an hour for workers in this nationally organized event. (Photo By RJ Sangosti/The Denver Post) ( BZ30FASTFOOD_RJ26974 )
NORTHGLENN, CO-August, 2013: Protesters, asking for better wages for fast food workers, take over a McDonald's in Northglenn, August 29, 2013. They are asking for $15 an hour for workers in this nationally organized event. (Photo By RJ Sangosti/The Denver Post) ( BZ30FASTFOOD_RJ27293 )
NORTHGLENN, CO-August, 2013: Protesters asking for better wages for fast food workers stand outside a McDonald's in Northglenn, August 29, 2013. The asking rate is $15 an hour for workers in this nationally organized event. (Photo By RJ Sangosti/The Denver Post) ( BZ30FASTFOOD_RJ26952 )
NORTHGLENN, CO-August, 2013: Protesters asking for better wages for fast food workers stand outside a McDonald's in Northglenn, August 29, 2013. The asking rate is $15 an hour for workers in this nationally organized event. (Photo By RJ Sangosti/The Denver Post) ( BZ30FASTFOOD_RJ26930 )
NORTHGLENN, CO-August, 2013: Protesters asking for better wages for fast food workers march outside a McDonald's in Northglenn, August 29, 2013. They are asking for $15 an hour for workers in this nationally organized event. (Photo By RJ Sangosti/The Denver Post) ( BZ30FASTFOOD_RJ27545 )
NORTHGLENN, CO-August, 2013: Jason Butler along with other protesters, asking for better wages for fast food workers, stand outside a McDonald's in Northglenn, August 29, 2013. The asking rate is $15 an hour for workers in this nationally organized event. (Photo By RJ Sangosti/The Denver Post) ( BZ30FASTFOOD_RJ26991 )
NORTHGLENN, CO-August, 2013: Protesters, asking for better wages for fast food workers, take over a McDonald's in Northglenn, August 29, 2013. They are asking for $15 an hour for workers in this nationally organized event. (Photo By RJ Sangosti/The Denver Post) ( BZ30FASTFOOD_RJ27295 )
New York City Council Speaker and mayoral candidate Christine Quinn, center, accompanied by Minister Patricia Malcolm, left, and New York City Council member and public advocate candidate Letitia James, lead a fast food workers' protest march on New York's Fifth Avenue, Thursday, Aug. 29, 2013. (AP Photo/Richard Drew) ( Fast Food Protests )
Protesting fast food workers, joined by New York City Council Speaker and mayoral candidate Christine Quinn, center, and protest organizers, occupy a McDonald's restaurant on New York's Fifth Avenue, Thursday, Aug. 29, 2013. (AP Photo/Richard Drew) ( Fast Food Protests )
Protesting fast food workers fill a McDonald's restaurant on New York's Fifth Avenue, Thursday, Aug. 29, 2013. (AP Photo/Richard Drew) ( Fast Food Protests )
New York City Council Speaker and mayoral candidate Christine Quinn speaks at a fast food workers' protest outside a McDonald's restaurant on New York's Fifth Avenue, Thursday, Aug. 29, 2013. (AP Photo/Richard Drew) ( Fast Food Protests )
Protesting fast food workers, joined by New York City Council Speaker and mayoral candidate Christine Quinn, second left, and protest organizers, chant inside a McDonald's restaurant on New York's Fifth Avenue, Thursday, Aug. 29, 2013. (AP Photo/Richard Drew) ( Fast Food Protests )
Shaniqua Davis, center, who works at a McDonald's earning $7.25 an hour, speaks at a fast food workers' protest outside a McDonald's restaurant on New York's Fifth Avenue, Thursday, Aug. 29, 2013. (AP Photo/Richard Drew) ( Fast Food Protests )
Protesting fast food workers fill a McDonald's restaurant on New York's Fifth Avenue, Thursday, Aug. 29, 2013. (AP Photo/Richard Drew) ( APTOPIX Fast Food Protests )
Protesting fast food workers demonstrate outside a McDonald's restaurant on New York's Fifth Avenue, Thursday, Aug. 29, 2013. Organizers say thousands of fast-food workers are set to stage walkouts in dozens of cities around the country Thursday, part of a push to get chains such as McDonald's, Taco Bell and Wendy's to pay workers higher wages. (AP Photo/Richard Drew) ( Fast Food Protests )
Employees and supporters demonstrate outside of a Wendy's and Burger King fast-food restaurants to demand higher pay and the right to form a union on August 29, 2013 in New York City. (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images) ( 178335821 )
Employees and supporters demonstrate outside of a Wendy's and Burger King fast-food restaurants to demand higher pay and the right to form a union on August 29, 2013 in New York City. (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images) ( 178335846 )
Taco Bell employee Shanise Stitt pickets with other protestors in front of the Church's Chicken fast food restaurant in Detroit on Thursday, Aug. 29, 2013. (AP Photo/Detroit News, David Coates) ( Fast Food Protests )
Employees and supporters demonstrate outside of a Wendy's and Burger King fast-food restaurants to demand higher pay and the right to form a union on August 29, 2013 in New York City. (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images) ( 178335847 )
Lea Noel gets support from a passerby as she and other demonstrators protest low wages outside a Church's Chicken fast food restaurant, Thursday, Aug. 29, 2013, in Atlanta. (AP Photo/John Amis) ( Fast Foods Protests )
Employees and supporters demonstrate outside of a Wendy's and Burger King fast-food restaurants to demand higher pay and the right to form a union on August 29, 2013 in New York City. (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images) ( 178335854 )
A man carries his lunch inside of a Burger King as employees and supporters demonstrate outside to demand higher pay and the right to form a union on August 29, 2013 in New York City. (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images) ( 178335856 )
Employees and supporters demonstrate outside of a Wendy's and Burger King fast-food restaurants to demand higher pay and the right to form a union on August 29, 2013 in New York City. (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images) ( 178335889 )
Employees and supporters demonstrate outside of a Wendy's and Burger King fast-food restaurants to demand higher pay and the right to form a union on August 29, 2013 in New York City. (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images) ( 178335857 )
Employees and supporters demonstrate outside of a Wendy's and Burger King fast-food restaurants to demand higher pay and the right to form a union on August 29, 2013 in New York City. (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images) ( 178335890 )
Employees and supporters demonstrate outside of a Wendy's and Burger King fast-food restaurants to demand higher pay and the right to form a union on August 29, 2013 in New York City. (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images) ( 178335989 )
Protesters display placards outside a Burger King fast food restaurant in Boston, Thursday, Aug. 29, 2013. The protest was one of several planned in Boston Thursday in what organizers say are similar walkouts planned in dozens of cities to push chains such as McDonald's, Taco Bell and Wendy's to pay workers more. (AP Photo/Boston Herald, Mark Garfinkel) ( Fast Food Protests Boston )
Protesters display placards outside a Burger King fast food restaurant in Boston, Thursday, Aug. 29, 2013. The protest was one of several planned in Boston Thursday in what organizers say are similar walkouts planned in dozens of cities to push chains such as McDonald's, Taco Bell and Wendy's to pay workers more. (AP Photo/Boston Herald, Mark Garfinkel) ( Fast Food Protests Boston )
Kevin Cole protests outside a fast food restaurant on Thursday Aug. 29, 2013 in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Nick Ut) ( Fast Food Protests )
A police officer orders Greg Casar, of the Workers Defense Project, to get off the property of a Burger King in Austin, Texas, on Thursday Aug. 29, 2013. Casar was leading a group of about 200 people who support the fast food strike in a march along Guadalupe Street. (AP Photo/Austin American-Statesman, Jay Janner) ( Fast Food Protests )
Protestors demonstrate outside a fast food restaurant on Thursday, Aug. 29, 2013, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Nick Ut) ( APTOPIX Fast Food Protests )
Lea Noel, left, demonstrates outside a Church's Chicken joining others protesting low wages during a one day strike coinciding with strikes at other fast food restaurants across the country, Thursday, Aug. 29, 2013, in Atlanta. The group is calling for $15 an hour and the right to form a union without interference from employers. (AP Photo/John Amis) ( Fast Foods Protests )
Protestors demonstrate outside a fast food restaurant on Thursday, Aug. 29, 2013, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Nick Ut) ( Fast Food Protests Calif )
Church's Chicken employee Tina McCory protests low wages outside the fast food restaurant, Thursday, Aug. 29, 2013, in Atlanta. (AP Photo/John Amis) ( Fast Foods Protests )
Demonstrators picket in front of the Church's Chicken fast food restaurant in Detroit on Thursday, Aug. 29, 2013. (AP Photo/Detroit News, David Coates) ( Fast Food Protests )
Protesters line a portion of the 4600 block of Capitol Blvd. in Raleigh, North Carolina, at a rally calling for a $15-an-hour wage for fast-food workers, Thursday, August 29, 2013. The rally is one of several nationally. (Scott Sharpe/Raleigh News & Observer/MCT) ( US NEWS FASTFOOD-PROTESTS 1 RA )
New York City Council Speaker and mayoral candidate Christine Quinn speaks at a fast food workers' protest outside a McDonald's restaurant on New York's Fifth Avenue, Thursday, Aug. 29, 2013. (AP Photo/Richard Drew) ( Fast Food Protests )
Fast food workers and their supporters picket outside a Burger King restaurant in Los Angeles on August 29, 2013. Fast food workers walked off their jobs as part of a nationwide strike demanding higher wages and the right to form a union. AFP PHOTO / Robyn BECK/AFP/Getty Images ( 522402026 )
Fast food workers and their supporters picket outside a Burger King restaurant in Los Angeles on August 29, 2013. AFP PHOTO / Robyn BECK/AFP/Getty Images ( 522401967 )
A sign reading "Stop Super Sizing Poverty" is carried as fast food workers and their supporters picket outside a Burger King restaurant in Los Angeles on August 29, 2013. AFP PHOTO / Robyn BECK/AFP/Getty Images ( 522401357 )
Fast food workers and their supporters picket outside a Burger King restaurant in Los Angeles on August 29, 2013. Fast food workers walked off their jobs as part of a nationwide strike demanding higher wages and the right to form a union. AFP PHOTO / Robyn BECK/AFP/Getty Images ( 522401973 )
Fast food workers and their supporters picket outside a Burger King restaurant in Los Angeles on August 29, 2013. Fast food workers walked off their jobs as part of a nationwide strike demanding higher wages and the right to form a union. AFP PHOTO / Robyn BECK/AFP/Getty Images ( 522401969 )
Fast food workers and their supporters picket outside a Burger King restaurant in Los Angeles on August 29, 2013. Fast food workers walked off their jobs as part of a nationwide strike demanding higher wages and the right to form a union. AFP PHOTO / Robyn BECK/AFP/Getty Images ( 522401971 )
Fast food workers and their supporters picket outside a Burger King restaurant in Los Angeles on August 29, 2013. Fast food workers walked off their jobs as part of a nationwide strike demanding higher wages and the right to form a union. AFP PHOTO / Robyn BECK/AFP/Getty Images ( 522402020 )
Fast food workers and their supporters take part in a nationwide strike outside a McDonald's fastfood outlet demanding higher wages and the right to form a union on August 29, 2013 in Los Angeles, California, where the fast food restaurant workers were calling for a $15.00 per hour wage. AFP PHOTO/Frederic J. BROWN/AFP/Getty Images ( 522403511 )
Fast food workers and their supporters take part in a nationwide strike outside a McDonald's fastfood outlet demanding higher wages and the right to form a union on August 29, 2013 in Los Angeles, California, where the fast food restaurant workers were calling for a $15.00 per hour wage. AFP PHOTO/Frederic J. BROWN/AFP/Getty Images ( 522403539 )
Fast food workers and their supporters take part in a nationwide strike outside a McDonald's fastfood outlet demanding higher wages and the right to form a union on August 29, 2013 in Los Angeles, California, where the fast food restaurant workers were calling for a $15.00 per hour wage. AFP PHOTO/Frederic J. BROWN/AFP/Getty Images ( 522403547 )
Azi Ebrahimi, right, demonstrates for higher wages for fast food industry workers during a one day strike coinciding with strikes at other fast food restaurants across the country, Thursday, Aug. 29, 2013, in Atlanta. (AP Photo/John Amis) ( Fast Foods Protests )
People who support the fast food workers strike march along Guadalupe Street in Austin,Texas on Thursday Aug. 29, 2013. (AP Photo/Austin American-Statesman, Jay Janner) ( Fast Food Protests )
Fast food workers, civil rights activists and union members marched on Memphis city streets Thursday to call for a wage increase for the fast food employees on Thursday, Aug. 29, 2013 in Memphis, Tenn. (AP Photo/Adrian Sainz) ( Fast Food Protest-Memphis )
Christina Condori joins a crowd of low-income fast food workers and their supporters in protest on Thursday, Aug. 29, 2013, while picketing outside of the McDonalds restaurant in Memphis, Tenn. (AP Photo/The Commercial Appeal, Jim Weber) ( Fast Food Protests )
People who support the fast food workers strike march along Guadalupe Street in Austin,Texason Thursday Aug. 29, 2013. (AP Photo/Austin American-Statesman, Jay Janner) ( Fast Food Protests )
U.S. Representative John Lewis, D-Ga., speaks to demonstrators gathered at Five Points plaza protesting for higher wages for workers in the fast food industry during a one day strike coinciding with other strikes across the country, Thursday, Aug. 29, 2013, in Atlanta. (AP Photo/John Amis) ( Fast Foods Protests )
Arnulfo Manriquez, of the Workers Defense Project, marches with supporters of the fast food strike in Austin, Texas, on Thursday Aug. 29, 2013. (AP Photo/Austin American-Statesman, Jay Janner) ( Fast Food Protests )
Fast food workers, civil rights activists and union members marched on Memphis city streets Thursday to call for a wage increase for the fast food employees on Thursday, Aug. 29, 2013 in Memphis, Tenn. (AP Photo/Adrian Sainz) ( Fast Food Protest-Memphis )
Danny Alvarez protests at a Burger King fast food restaurant in Austin,Texas on Thursday Aug. 29, 2013. Fast-food protests were under way Thursday in U.S. cities including New York, Chicago and Detroit, with organizers expecting the biggest national walkouts yet in a demand for higher wages. (AP Photo/Austin American-Statesman, Jay Janner) ( Fast Food Protests )
Bennett Foster, left, joins a crowd of some low-income fast food workers and their supporters in protest on Thursday, Aug. 29, 2013, while picketing outside of the McDonalds restaurant in Memphis, Tenn. (AP Photo/The Commercial Appeal, Jim Weber) ( Fast Food Protests )
Public Advocate and mayoral candidate Bill de Blasio walks with his wife Chirlane McCray after making an appearance in Union Square in support of demonstrating fast food workers on August 29, 2013 in New York City. (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images) ( 178343213 )
Darryl Johnson from Kent leads fast food workers and others in a chant as they protest in front of the Wendy's in Ballard located at 5315 Ave NW Thursday Aug. 29, 2013, in Seattle, Wash. They want the minimum wage to be raised to $15/hour. (AP Photo/The Seattle Times, Ellen M. Banner) ( Fast Food Protest )
Mayoral candidate Anthony Weiner speaks in Union Square in support of demonstrating fast food workers on August 29, 2013 in New York City. Across the country thousands of low-wage workers are expected to walk off their jobs Thursday at fast food establishments in several U.S. cities. Workers at KFC, Wendy's, Burger King, McDonald's and other restaurants are calling for a living wage of $15 an hour and the right to form a union without retaliation. In a poll released Wednesday by Quinnipiac University, Bill de Blasio is now close to the 40 percent threshold he'd need to avoid a runoff in the Democratic primary. (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images) ( 178343155 )
People who support the fast food workers strike march along Guadalupe Street in Austin,Texas on Thursday Aug. 29, 2013. (AP Photo/Austin American-Statesman, Jay Janner) ( Fast Food Protests )
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