Hamburgled? McDonald's charged with wage theft.

• Position: On the Line - Brief article

Workers, community leaders, and clergy protested in thirty-three cities from Raleigh to Los Angeles in March, calling on McDonald's to stop engaging in wage theft. The actions followed on the heels of class-action suits filed in California, Michigan, and New York alleging McDonald's is robbing employees by forcing them to work off the clock, shaving hours off their time cards, and not paying them overtime, among other practices.

A recent survey in New York showed that 84 percent of fast food workers encountered some form of wage theft.

"We work hard, and our wages are already impossible to live on," says Ashley Echevarria, a twenty-four-year-old mother of two, who works at McDonald's in Durham, North Carolina. She says she has to restock items after clocking out and...