Milwaukee fast food workers are expected to become the latest city to join in a series of one day walkouts over wages and unionization. Workers argue that they cannot live on what they are paid, about $9.05 nationwide. Workers are asking for $15, which they say is enough to live on. Workers in New York, Chicago, St. Louis and Detroit have all staged one-day walkouts, and in New York many of the restaurants affected have slightly raised wages.
See "Fast-food workers stage protests for higher wages", Paul Davidson, USA Today, May 14, 2013