The drive for McDonald's to raise minimum wage
Fast food movement plans next wave of protests on April 15, with over 60,000 people across 200 cities
Atlanta
On a recent Friday, Kwanza Brooks, a US$7.25-an-hour McDonald's worker, climbed into a 14-person van to take a four-hour ride from Charlotte, North Carolina, to Atlanta.
As she and other workers headed south, Ms Brooks swapped stories with her companions about unsafe conditions and unfair managers. Upon arriving, they joined more than 400 other people - including home care aides, Wal-Mart workers, child care workers and adjunct professors - at the Ebenezer Baptist Church, where the Rev Dr Martin Luther King Jr had been a pastor.
The gathering on March 21 was in part a strategy session to plan for the fast-food movement's next big wave of protests, which is now scheduled for April 15. But the meeting was also seeking to be something far more ambitious. Through some strategic alchemy, the organisers hoped the gathering would turn the fast-food workers' fight for a US$15 hourly wage into a broad …
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