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action or later. Please see Debugging in WordPress for more information. (This message was added in version 6.7.0.) in /home2/speakcit/public_html/wp-includes/functions.php on line 6114<\/a> By Erik Anderson<\/span> Fast-food workers in San Diego took to the streets of City Heights Thursday as part of a one-day strike in up to 150 cities nationwide to press their demands for pay of $15 an hour and the right to unionize.<\/p>\n \u201cBeginning earlier this morning, all the way from New York City, moving west we have been fighting for what we believe is right,” said Reverend Lee Hill, of the United Church of Christ.<\/p>\n The local workers and their supporters gathered near a McDonald’s in City Heights early Thursday morning, then began marching to nearby Burger King and Jack in the Box restaurants.<\/p>\n Organizers said similar events are scheduled to take place in anywhere from 100 to 150 cities nationwide, though it’s unclear how many workers will participate.<\/p>\n At one point during the local protests, strikers were sitting in the roadway on University Avenue over Interstate 15. About a dozen people were arrested and taken away by police.<\/p>\n
\nProtesters are arrested after refusing to leave a City Heights intersection, Sept. 4, 2013. | Photo Credit: Erik Anderson<\/span><\/p>\n
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