"Fast food workers plan biggest US strike to date over minimum wage", 1 Sep 2014

Workers from McDonald’s, Burger King and other chains to hold walkout protest on Thursday as battle to unionise escalates...[The] protest...[is over] low wages and poor healthcare...Workers from McDonald’s, Burger King, Pizza Hut [part of YUM Brands] and other large chains will strike on Thursday and are planning protests outside stores nationwide, in states including California, Missouri, Wisconsin and New York...Dana Wittman, 38, [who] works for Pizza Hut in Kansas City, Missouri...said she takes home about $600 a week. Her rent is $650 and she is reliant on government subsidies to make up the shortfall...Thursday’s strike will be the seventh since fast food workers in New York walked out on their jobs in November 2012. Each walkout has been bigger than the last... [The] National Labor Relations Board [recently] defined McDonald’s as a joint employer of the restaurants run by its franchisees...The decision...is being heavily challenged...The company insist[s]...that its franchisees, not the corporation, are responsible for wages.