California appears to be on the verge of passing AB5, a bill that would make it much harder for companies to…
A Nevada teen’s TikTok went viral over the past week after calling for her peers at her school district to strike in…
Workers at fast food chain Popeyes have been forced to work overtime, working shifts up to 11 hours to fill recent…
While we here at Splinter would never in our lives endorse criminal conduct, you have to hand it to the former…
This week, gig economy delivery company Postmates ran a full-page ad in the LA Times—signed by more than 1,600 of…
Last night, a deeply strange thing happened after a Twitter user responded to a fairly innocuous August 1 tweet from…
Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders appeared at Walmart’s annual shareholders meeting on Wednesday to present a resolution…

Teachers strikes and walkouts continued to sweep the country this week, as Oregon teachers took personal days off…
On May Day, thousands of teachers in North and South Carolina took to the streets yet again to protest low pay and…
Stop & Shop workers in the United Food and Commercial Workers union will get to go back to work after over a week of…
With the beating that public sector unions have taken in both the courts and the states over the past decade, it’s…
The Labor Department announced a proposal today that would limit the ability of workers to sue big companies for…
Last week, we asked what it was like to work at Sweetgreen, the slick, pricey salad bowl chain of choice for…
The saga of Amazon’s search for its second headquarters, but then it turned out to be for a third as well, but then…
When Amazon, the mega-corporation that some people bizarrely seem to think of as a beloved old friend, announced on…
It’s a fitting day for Mayor Bill de Blasio to cast himself as the scorned lover in his torrid affair with Amazon,…
Bloomberg reported today that the insurance company Unum is offering a “creative” deal to its workers: Swapping up…
Hundreds of thousands of federal workers are not getting paid right now because the government is shut down. By now,…

At the beginning of this month, Los Angeles substitute teacher Irene Pineda didn’t know much about the politics…
It’s been a wild few days for New Yorkers.