US fast-food workers plan strike to demand $15-an-hour minimum wage

Walkouts planned at restaurants owned by mega-corporations in more than a dozen cities for racial and economic justice'

Fast-food workers from more than a dozen US cities are striking on Friday to demand the federal minimum be increased to $15 an hour.

Ahead of Monday's holiday honoring American civil rights leader the Rev Dr Martin Luther King Jr, the group known as Fight for 15 said workers from mega-corporations including McDonald's and Starbucks had been encouraged to walk off their jobs on what would have been King's 92nd birthday on 15 January.