LOS ANGELES — Scores of Los Angeles fast-food workers spent their Thursday protesting for higher pay and better working conditions, even as labor's latest legislative pushback against the restaurant industry has stalled.
Wearing bright red shirts and carrying signs, more than 100 local fast-food workers and union organizers crowded on the steps of the downtown Los Angeles building housing the Los Angeles Area Chamber of Commerce in the morning with plans to protest at individual restaurants later in the day.
"We are fighting for ourselves to live," one worker said as the crowd cheered.
