Photos: Fast food wage protest

Fast-food workers are joined by supporters Thursday as they walk into a downtown Los Angeles McDonald’s in a peaceful demonstration demanding higher wages. Ten protesters were arrested later after sitting in the middle of Broadway. (Mark Boster / Los Angeles Times)

Sept. 4, 2014 3:51 PM PT

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Fast food workers to strike to win $15 and the right to form a union. Los Angeles fast-food workers will walk off their jobs Thursday as their movement intensifies and continues to spread.

Customers in a Los Angeles McDonald’s seem unfazed Thursday by protesting fast-food workers and supporters asking for higher wages. (Mark Boster / Los Angeles Times)

Fast-food workers and community supporters sit in front of a downtown Los Angeles McDonald’s on Thursday. (Mark Boster / Los Angeles Times)

Ten protesters are arrested after sitting down on Broadway in L.A. (Mark Boster / Los Angeles Times)

Fast-food workers rally outside a South L.A. McDonald’s on Thursday as part of efforts to raise wages to $15 an hour and the right to form unions. (Bob Chamberlin / Los Angeles Times)

On Thursday, workers and protesters block a driveway to the McDonald’s at 1071 W. Martin Luther King Blvd., Los Angeles, in protest of low wages. (Bob Chamberlin / Los Angeles Times)

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