Cesar Torres holds a sign during a protest outside McDonald’s on 2248 Paradise Road Thursday, Dec. 5, 2013, in Las Vegas. Community members and fast-food workers gathered as part of a nation-wid …

Cesar Torres holds a sign during a protest outside McDonald’s on 2248 Paradise Road Thursday, Dec. 5, 2013, in Las Vegas. Community members and fast-food workers gathered as part of a nation-wide strike to protest the federal minimum wage for fast-food workers as well as to support the right to unionize without management reprisals. (Ronda Churchill/Las Vegas Review-Journal)