Al Jazeera: Melk Talks How Strike Wave Led to Organizing Success at Amazon
Folks, In the wake of the Amazon victory, I appeared on Al-Jazeera last Friday to talk about how the Strike Wave during the pandemic gave…
Folks, In the wake of the Amazon victory, I appeared on Al-Jazeera last Friday to talk about how the Strike Wave during the pandemic gave…
PITTSBURGH, PA – Over the past week, Pittsburgh Congressional candidate Steve Irwin, who has won the support of most of Pittsburgh’s Democratic establishment, has attempted…
Help Create a Special Healthcare Fund Folks, Three months ago, I was diagnosed with COVID, and ever since then I have been sick and struggling…
ENNIS, MONTANA – With the snow-capped mountains visible a few miles off in the distance, Camp BullWheel sits just 400 yards from the Madison River,…
(Update: on Friday night after publication of Payday’s expose, the Pittsburgh-based AFL-CIO declined to endorse Irwin) PITTSBURGH, PA – Payday Report has recently discovered that…
HELENA, MONTANA – In his home office a few miles from Montana’s State Capitol in Helena, LaborLab Co-Founder Bob Funk checks Department of Labor filings…
Folks, While out reporting on union busting in Yellowstone, I went on the RJ Eskow of the Zero Hour podcast to talk about my travels…
Update: Cornell’s Labor Action Tracker listed 370 strikes in 2021, but in a press release the group claims that they tracked 260 strikes Today the…
In mid-December, I came down with a terrible case of COVID like many workers in this country. Since then, I have developed long COVID, which…
PITTSBURGH, PA. – Yesterday marked the one-year anniversary when legendary labor folk singer Anne Feeney died from COVID-19 at the age of 69. I often…
In 1968, Martin Luther King Jr. was killed while visiting Memphis, Tennessee to march with the striking sanitation workers there. Fifty-four years later, we are…
Late last fall, “Sorry to Bother You” director Boots Riley and I sat for a wide-ranging discussion. We discussed the strike wave, the failure of…