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The fight for a $15 minimum wage continues. <div>Next week, the largest nationwide fast food strike will take place, and this time protesters are hoping to influence the results of the next presidential election.&nbsp;The group representing the workers, Fight for $15, plans to stage protests at restaurants in 270 cities on Nov. 10, the most since it began organizing the demonstrations three years ago.Then, striking fast-food and other low-wage workers will gather at local city halls, kicking off a campaign to encourage voters to cast their ballots in 2016 for candidates who support the minimum wage increase.</div> &#8220;We&#8217;re putting politicians on notice that we&#8217;re going to hold them accountable,&#8221; says Kendall Fells, the organizing director of Fight for $15, in <a href="http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2015/11/05/fast-food-strike/75155278/?utm_source=1851franchise.com&utm_medium=article&utm_campaign=fast-food-workers-plan-biggest-nationwide-strike-2828" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">USA Today</a>. Top Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton and progressive underdog Bernie Sanders have both been vocal about their support for higher wages for fast food workers. The Fight for $15 campaign is planning a major initiative to sign up unregistered votes over the next year. According to an article in <a href="http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2015/11/05/fast-food-strike/75155278/?utm_source=1851franchise.com&utm_medium=article&utm_campaign=fast-food-workers-plan-biggest-nationwide-strike-2828" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">USA Today</a>, nearly 70 percent of unregistered voters would sign up, and a similar share of registered voters would be more likely to go to the polls, if there were a presidential candidate in favor of a $15 minimum wage and workers&#8217; right to unionize. New York has already approved a $15 minimum wage for fast food workers to be implemented by 2018, and similar measures have been adopted in San Francisco and Seattle&#8212;but workers in many other areas of the country are still hoping to make such an increase a reality. <a href="http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2015/11/05/fast-food-strike/75155278/?utm_source=1851franchise.com&utm_medium=article&utm_campaign=fast-food-workers-plan-biggest-nationwide-strike-2828" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Click here to read the original article.</a>

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Fast food workers are gearing up for a new strike to fight for a $15 minimum wage and to help sway the election.

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