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Topic: Fast food strike

A McDonald's employee sweeps up outside the restaurant on April 15, 2015 in New York, United States. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

Why fast food workers are on strike

(Reuters/Joshua Roberts/Lucy Nicholson/Photo montage by Salon)

Class? In America? Just maybe

(AP/Reuters/Mike Groll/Alex Brandon/Jonathan Ernst)

The Dems they are a-changin'

(AP/Gene J. Puskar)

"killing me to ask for help"

Anthony Fambrough

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McMugging the middle class

Christopher Dale

(Jeff Malet, maletphoto.com)

Palin's most insane moments

(Reuters/Andrew Kelly)

Come to the table, McDonald's

(Reuters/Lucy Nicholson)

Why we're striking today

Andrew McConnell

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Freak accidents can destroy us

(AP/John Minchillo)

Largest fast food strike ever

(John Minchillo)

"They're thinking much bigger"

Natasha Lennard

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Demonstrators protesting low wages and the lack of union representation in the fast food industry stand outside McDonald's in New York, April 4, 2013. (Reuters/Lucas Jackson)

“I felt dizzy and sick”

(Lucas Jackson / Reuters)

Natasha Lennard

Demonstrators protesting low wages and the lack of union representation in the fast food industry stand outside McDonald's in New York, April 4, 2013. (Reuters/Lucas Jackson)

Natasha Lennard

Demonstrators protesting low wages and the lack of union representation in the fast food industry stand outside McDonald's in New York, April 4, 2013. (Reuters/Lucas Jackson)

Fast food strike in St. Louis

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Demonstrators protesting low wages and the lack of union representation in the fast food industry stand outside McDonald's in New York, April 4, 2013. (Reuters/Lucas Jackson)

Fast food walkout in Chicago

(Reuters/Andrew Kelly)

Surprise fast food strike

(AP)

Fast-food striker rehired

(AP/Ben Margot)

Strikes spread to fast food

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