…Los Angeles fast-food cooks and cashiers rallied Tuesday at a Subway in Eagle Rock to show support for Eva Rodriguez, an employee at the sandwich shop.

Rodriguez filed a lawsuit and an administrative complaint against Subway alleging wage theft “through years of altered timekeeping, hundreds of hours worked without any pay, and thousands of hours worked without overtime pay.”

This has happened over the course of 11 years, according to Rodriguez. Since she started speaking up, she’s lived with stress from what she said is retaliation and mistreatment.

Rodriguez wants to hold Subway responsible because although the location she works at is a franchised shop, she said the people who are sent from the company to check in on the shop haven’t been friendly to the workers.

“She came like three times to the store and talked to us with bad words, like calling us names in front of customers, like making us feel like we are undervalued, and she just made us feel like we are not humans,” Rodriguez explained…

After learning about her rights from the union – Service Employees International Union Local 721 – she started a campaign, they did a strike, and now, they’ve filed the lawsuit…