With over 50 cities impacted, employees from fast-food chains such as Taco Bell, McDonalds, Wendy’s and other fast-food restaurants are demanding a $15 an hour wage for workers. Staging one-day strikes in over 100 different cities, the employees hope to get their point across.
“There’s been pretty huge growth in one year,” said Kendall Fells, one of the movement’s main organizers. “People understand that a one-day strike is not going to get them there. They understand that this needs to continue to grow.”
Industry officials say that only a small percentage of fast-food jobs pay the minimum wage and that those are largely entry-level jobs for workers under 25.
Backers of the movement for higher pay point to studies saying that the average age of fast-food workers is 29 and that more than one-fourth are parents raising children.
