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Fast food workers plan series of events ahead of GOP debate

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January 28th, 2016 by Ric Hanson

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) – Some Iowa fast food workers have walked off the job in Des Moines to demand $15-an-hour wages, and they are planning other protests that include a demonstration outside the venue of a Republican presidential debate. Workers held a strike at 6 a.m. Thursday at a McDonald’s in northeast Des Moines. Other events are planned Thursday, ending with a short march through downtown and then rally at the Iowa Events Center, site of a GOP debate.

Wiley King, a Wendy’s worker who walked off the job Thursday, says the strike included workers from McDonald’s, Burger King, Wendy’s and Long John Silver’s. King says they hope media attention during the Iowa caucuses will help them draw attention to the needs of low-wage workers. Organizers hope to draw 1,000 people to the rally.