former mcdonald's worker jenna ries tells anna werner why she's pursuing a class action suit against the company. >> i had to force myself to go to work every day. >> reporter: this mcdonald's franchise in mason, michigan, is where jenna ries says she endured daily harassment in her $14-an-hour managerial job beginning in 2017. her lawsuit alleges a coworker frequently grabbed her body parts, including her crotch, breasts, and buttocks. >> i was called, like, a "bitch" and a "slut," and a "whore." all kind of things. i was constantly in fear of losing my job. >> reporter: ries' allegations are the latest in a series of sexual harassment complaints levied at one of the world's largest employers, with the company now facing more than 50 complaints and lawsuits from workers around the country. ries' lawsuit says all of it indicative of a sexually hostile work environment and the company culture that enables it. ries says she complained to the restaurant's general managers on multiple occasions but was ignored. finally, in march of this year, she quit. >> he came up to me and he put his

in michigan, former mcdonald's worker jenna ries is suing the fast-food chain over sexual harassment. she says she and other female mcdonald's workers were groped, assaulted, and verbally harassed by one of their co-workers and that the general manager ignored the abuse. the lawsuit comes one week after mcdonald's former ceo steve easterbrook was fired for having a sexual relationship with an employeeee. in connecticut, longtime u.s. resident salma sikandar has won asylum months after her husband led a hunger strike in front of the immigration and customs enforcement office in hartford, connecticut, to protest her deportation. sikandar has lived in the united states for nearly 20 years. but in june, she was abruptly told by ice that she had to leave the country by august. this is sikandar's son, samir mahmud, explaining how his father decided to launch the hunger strikike. >> so what happened was, my dad had a bunch of crazy ideas. he was losing his mind, to be honest, because of the deportation. he was going to lose my mother. he thought having a hunger strike in front of hartford co