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Published on Aug 29, 2013 US fast food workers stage nationwide strike in protest at low wages Workers strike in 60 cities across America calling for minimum wage to be increased and seeking right to unionise US workers in the fastfood industry staged a one day strike in dozens of cities on Thursday calling for better wages and the right to unionise. The strike was the largest so far in a 10 month campaign that began with 200 workers striking in New York last November and which spread to Detroit and Chicago in July. Organisers said the strikes scheduled a day after the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington and a few days before Labor Day were being held in 60 cities and had spread to the south including Tampa and Raleigh and the west with workers in Los Angeles and San Francisco taking part. In New York the Democratic mayoral hopeful Christine Quinn took part in a march with several hundred workers and protesters before entering a McDonalds near the Empire State Building on Thursday morning. Local organisers in Detroit said at least three stores had been shut down because of the strikes. One was a Checkers restaurant the other two were Churchs chicken restaurants. The striking workers are part of a coalition of unions campaign groups clergy and community members.