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American fast-food workers went strike on Thursday. They want more . They get paid the wage of $7.25. This is the as 2009. They cannot live on that. Prices have gone but their wages have not. The workers want $15 an hour - their current . A pizza restaurant worker told the BBC he got $9 an hour. It isn't for himself and his daughter. He said: "I know I'm my job, but it's my right to for what I deserve."

McDonald's and Burger King said their restaurant decide about . Most of their restaurants are . They said higher wages would mean more burgers. McDonald’s were over $5.5 billion in 2011. A restaurant said wages are because the staff are young and have little work . Five per cent of fast-food workers get the minimum wage. Most of those are and are teenagers.

 
 

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