NEW YORK — Fast-food labor organizers say they’re expanding the scope of their campaign for $15 an hour and unionization, this time with a day of actions that will include other low-wage workers and demonstrations on college campuses.

Kendall Fells, organizing director for Fight for $15, said Tuesday that the protests will take place April 15 and are planned to include actions on about 170 college campuses, as well as cities around the country and abroad.

At an event announcing the actions in front of a McDonald’s in New York City’s Times Square, organizers said home health care aides, airport workers, adjunct professors, child care workers and Wal-Mart employees will be among those turning out in April.

Terrence Wise, a Burger King worker from Kansas City, Missouri, and a national leader for the Fight for $15 push, said more than 2,000 groups, including Jobs With Justice and the Center for Popular Democracy, will show their support as well.

“This will be the biggest mobilization America has seen in decades,” Wise said at the rally as pedestrians walked past on the busy street.

In a statement, McDonald’s said it respects people’s right to peacefully protest, but the demonstrations over the past two years have been “organized rallies designed to garner media attention” and that “very few” McDonald’s workers have participated.

McDonald’s and other fast-food chains have maintained that they’re not responsible for hiring and employment decisions at franchised locations.

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