A McDonald's worker fainted today at New York City's 181st Street and Broadway location after working in the kitchen without air conditioning for several hours. The woman felt ill and asked to leave but says her boss wouldn't allow her to go home because there was no backup. Tweets and photos surfaced of the woman leaving with paramedics (see below). Outraged by the working conditions, fellow workers walked off the job in protest. 

A local NBC News station reported:

Some of the workers contacted Fast Food Forward, an organization that advocates for fast-food workers. 

That group then organized a protest, and two workers walked off the job. 

Occupy Wall Street New York City tweeted this picture of the worker with the paramedics leaving the McDonald's:

Workers walkout of #4259Broadway McDonalds after forced2work w/o AC, hottest day of yr. Worker collapsed pic.twitter.com/eRxUb8NaaU @GBNYChange

— Occupy Wall Street (@OccupyWallStNYC) July 19, 2013