AMHERST, N.Y. -- Thousands of fast food workers across the country hit the streets on April 15 - Tax Deadline Day - to call for higher wages.
More than 100 protesters marched down Main Street in Amherst, chanting and carrying signs demanding McDonalds, Wendy's, and Burger King pay their workers at least $15 an hour. The protesters also wanted fast food workers be allowed to form unions.
People like Natasha Crawford said under the current wages most fast food restaurants pay, it's impossible to make a decent living.
"I'm out here to help fight for $15 an hour to help raise the minimum wage, so we have a better liveable wage in Buffalo, New York. We're out here struggling trying to take care of our children, working paycheck to paycheck and I think we deserve better, we deserve $15 an hour, and we deserve a union," said Crawford, a Buffalo resident.
Similar rallies were held in about 200 cities across the country.