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Fast Food Workers Reach Deal For Increased Pay

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Workers protest with signs that read "Join us at the table, respect democracy, protect AB257"
Dozens of fast-food cooks and cashiers in Los Angeles and Orange counties join a statewide strike to demand that McDonalds, Starbucks and other chains drop their referendum seeking to overturn AB 257, aka the FAST Recovery Act, outside a Starbucks in Los Angeles on Nov. 15, 2022. (Genaro Molina/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)

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