• Fast food workers staged a historic strike in New York City yesterday.

• The fast food strike comes on the heels of two major victories for working people in New York: paid sick days in NYC and a statewide minimum wage hike.

• America has so many prisoners it can’t keep track of them all: Two years in solitary for a DUI, and other prison paperwork SNAFUs.

• The sequester is forcing cancer clinics to turn away Medicare patients.

• Retailers blacklist employees accused of stealing in an unreliable private database.

[Photo credit: Wander Mule, Creative Commons.]