--- title: Fast Food Workers Strike in 150 Cities description: Fast food workers are expected to walk off the job in an estimated 150 cities on Thursday. canonical: https://time.com/3268082/fast-food-strikes-workers/ author: NBC News article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-09-04T14:07:22.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-21T10:00:19.085Z article:section: U.S. og:title: Fast Food Workers Strike in 150 Cities og:description: Fast food workers are expected to walk off the job in an estimated 150 cities on Thursday. og:url: https://time.com/3268082/fast-food-strikes-workers/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt1426487a94447829/6986a1f3f983e78bc904f7be/fast-food-strike1.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Fast Food Workers Protest For Increased Wages Ahead Of McDonald's Annual Shareholder Meeting og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Fast Food Workers Strike in 150 Cities twitter:description: Fast food workers are expected to walk off the job in an estimated 150 cities on Thursday. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt1426487a94447829/6986a1f3f983e78bc904f7be/fast-food-strike1.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # 'We're a Movement Now': Fast Food Workers Strike in 150 Cities by [NBC News](/author/nbc-news/) ## NBC News Sep 4, 2014 2:07 PM CUT  Fast food workers and activists demonstrate outside the McDonald's corporate campus on May 21, 2014 in Oak Brook, Illinois. The demonstrators were calling on McDonalds to pay a minimum wage of $15-per-hour and offer better working conditions for their employees. Fast food workers and activists demonstrate outside the McDonald's corporate campus on May 21, 2014 in Oak Brook, Illinois. The demonstrators were calling on McDonalds to pay a minimum wage of $15-per-hour and offer better working conditions for their employees.Scott Olson—Getty Images by [NBC News](/author/nbc-news/) ## NBC News Sep 4, 2014 2:07 PM CUT Fast food workers are expected to walk off the job in an estimated 150 cities on Thursday, with employees in many locations planning nonviolent civil disobedience. Organizers say the strike—with potentially widespread arrests of workers—marks an intensification of a [two-year campaign](http://www.nbcnews.com/business/consumer/fast-food-strikes-go-super-sized-clash-over-wages-f8C11028643 "undefined") to raise hourly pay in the industry to $15 and to win workers’ right to form a union. On Thursday morning, organizers said dozens of workers had been arrested in Detroit and New York’s Times Square… [Read the rest of the story at NBC News](http://www.nbcnews.com/feature/in-plain-sight/were-movement-now-fast-food-workers-strike-150-cities-n195256?cid=par-time-article%5F20140904 "undefined") ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3268082/fast-food-strikes-workers/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3268082/fast-food-strikes-workers/"},"headline":"'We're a Movement Now': Fast Food Workers Strike in 150 Cities","datePublished":"2014-09-04T14:07:22.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-21T10:00:19.085Z","description":"Fast food workers are expected to strike in an estimated 150 cities on Thursday, pushing for a raise in hourly wages and the right to form a union","url":"https://time.com/3268082/fast-food-strikes-workers/","keywords":["Fast Food"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt1426487a94447829/6986a1f3f983e78bc904f7be/fast-food-strike1.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"NBC News","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/nbc-news/"}],"articleSection":"U.S.","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt1426487a94447829/6986a1f3f983e78bc904f7be/fast-food-strike1.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Fast Food Workers Protest For Increased Wages Ahead Of McDonald's Annual Shareholder Meeting","caption":"Fast Food Workers Protest For Increased Wages Ahead Of McDonald's Annual Shareholder Meeting","creditText":"Scott Olson—Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/us/","name":"U.S."}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/fast-food/","name":"Fast Food"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3268082/fast-food-strikes-workers/","name":"'We're a Movement Now': Fast Food Workers Strike in 150 Cities"}}]}] ```