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Watch: Fast food strikers in Denver

Fast food workers in Colorado joined strikers across the nation today to demand a hike in the minimum wage from $7.25 an hour to...

Fast food striker: ‘I work, that means I should be making...

You see them working the drive-thru, refilling restroom soap dispensers and waiting at the bus stop in their cheery uniforms. They take your order,...

Wiretap: Hourly $15 the new eight-hour day

Inside the nascent fast-food labor movement, activists hope the $15-an-hour wage fight will become the eight-hour day of the 21st century.

Three arrested at fast food strike in Denver

Three men were arrested today in a rally during which more than 100 protesters — workers, union members, organizers and supporters — called for a minimum wage of $15 an hour and a union for fast food workers. The strike was part of a coordinated national effort today in more than 150 cities.