Something to consider while lamenting your three-day respite from labor: last week's fast food strike, which you should care about if you are a woman and/or a human being.

Hundreds of NYC fast food workers walked out of jobs at McDonald's, KFC, and Burger King today in what organizers say is the largest-ever strike against the basically union-free industry. The Fast Food Forward campaign is calling for an industry wage of $15 an hour in the city — that's double what most employees make…

Good news for disgruntled oversharers: federal regulators are forcing employers to stop firing workers based on online shit-talking.

"Holiday air travel is the best because everything flows smoothly and everyone is in such a good mood," said no one ever in the history of time. Holiday air travel is the worst. It's so the worst that it's not even worth saying how much it's the worst because everybody knows that already and complaining just adds to…

Hey working class Americans! I just want to take a second to show some appreciation on behalf of your bosses and the federal government. Like they say, you are the backbone of this country! You are the industry! And it's really important that we thank you for all of your hard work and the years of service that —

In this nation's continuing failure to heed the lessons of Dr. Seuss's How the Grinch Stole Christmas, American retailers are planning on starting their Black Friday sales so early that their already put-upon employees will be forced to leave their family Thanksgiving celebrations so that they can tend to the…

Bad news for people who like shitty, bland, nutritionally-void food made by ethically questionable companies: Hostess, the food manufacturer behind Ho-Hos, Wonder Bread, and Twinkies, has filed a motion to shut down and sell all assets as soon as possible, citing the financial blow dealt by the recent strike…

Since Monday, 350,000 Chicago kids who normally would be spending their day in classrooms crudely carving pictures of penises onto wooden desks are free to crudely carve penises on wooden things that are not located inside of a school building — their teachers are on strike. Let's take a terribly disappointing slog…

We've got trouble in the Windy City. With a capital T and that rhymes with D and that stands for Daddy, as in Leather Daddy. Apparently, the popular International Mr. Leather convention, an annual gathering of fetish enthusiasts that is every non Northface jacket-wearing Chicagoan's favorite people watching weekend,…

Whatever you think about The Help, at least it's sparked a larger conversation about domestic workers' lives — and maybe even their rights.

Today's jobs report for June managed to stun economists with its overall shittiness. But separate numbers suggest that what recovery we have made disproportionately benefits men.

The president and C.E.O. of Target, Gregg Steinhafel, fielded question after question about his company's $150,000 donation to an extremist right-wing group at Target's annual shareholder meeting yesterday. Several of Target's biggest investors, including some large pension funds, protested outside the meeting. …

The Wisconsin State Capitol is still flooded with protesters demanding Governor Walker and State Senate Republicans reconsider measures that would remove almost all bargaining rights from public employees' unions. Tea Partiers who bussed in yesterday are still trying to antagonize them, and various news trucks are…

• American Apparel's stock is tumbling this morning, following news that the company's dodgy accounting has caught the eye of the U.S. Attorney's office. It's currently trading at 0.83. [AMEX:APP]
• Dov says: "The capital structure issues will work themselves out." [WWD]

[Lyon, October 7. Image via Getty]

• Hillary suffered a coughing fit in South Dakota today and might give up altogether tomorrow. I have been suffering coughing fits all weekend and I haven't even managed to give up smoking, so I'm not placing any bets, but apparently there's a deal in the works for the Obama campaign to Bernanke her Bear Stearns. [Huff…