“Eight Boston fast-food workers and a community organizer were among dozens of protesters arrested across the country yesterday in an ongoing national effort to pressure McDonald’s, Burger King, Dunkin’ Donuts and other fast-food companies to pay workers $15 an hour and to earn the right to unionize.

Darius Cephas, a 22-year-old employed by McDonald’s in Dorchester, was among the Hub workers and a Massachusetts Jobs With Justice organizer who volunteered to risk arrest by staging sit-downs in two downtown intersections to draw attention to a movement that started in New York City in 2012 and yesterday included protests in about 150 cities.”