Trump Cuts OSHA Inspectors to Lowest Level in Agencies 48 Year History as Latino Workplace Deaths Soar
Writing for the Guardian, Payday Report Senior Labor Reporter Mike Elk has a look at how workplace safety has been set back during the Trump…
VW Seeks to Delay Union Election Till 2020 – Pitt Grad Election Too Close to Call – KY. Gov Goes Subpoenas Teachers
Greetings from the Burgh, where the labor movement has had a rough day, but first an appeal funds Help Us Make Rent Folks, it’s coming…
EXCLUSIVE: Union-Buster Rick Berman on His Anti-UAW Strategy at VW in Chattanooga
“We don’t need union bosses in Detroit telling Tennessee what’s best for our workers,” U.S. Senator Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) is fond of telling audiences as…
Union-Busting Lawyer to Host Biden’s 1st Fundraiser Thursday
PITTSBURGH, PA. – On Monday, Vice President Joe Biden intends to launch his presidential campaign at the Teamsters Local 249 in Pittsburgh with United Steelworkers…
Volkswagen Launches “Passive-Aggressive” Anti-Union Campaign As Dark Money Floods into Chattanooga
As the UAW approaches a historic union election at the Volkswagen plant in Chattanooga, Tennessee, some observers had remained optimistic that Volkswagen may not launch…
Jewish Telegraphic Agency: Pittsburgh and Parkland survivors help each other turn their grief into action
Writing for the Jewish Telegraphic Agency, Mike Elk has a look at how the Jewish Community in Squirrel Hill is responding in the aftermath of…
UAW Has Majority Support at VW & More – NewsGuild Prez Won’t Debate – Miss Teachers Move to Sickout
Folks, Greetings from the Burgh, where I must admit that I couldn’t sleep Tuesday night because I’m so excited about the upcoming union vote in…
Toxic Masculinity and the Anti-Union Campaign at Volkswagen in Chattanooga in 2014
This piece was originally published on March 13, 2014 at In These Times. At the time, Cornell Professor Kate Bronfenbrenner called it one of the…
Help Me Get Back to Chattanooga to Cover UAW Re-Vote at VW Five Years Later
As a one-time Chattanooga resident and habitual labor journalism tourist to the hills of Eastern Tennessee, I was so excited that I couldn’t sleep when…
UAW Files for New Union Election at Volkswagen in Chattanooga for 1,700 Workers
Today, the UAW announced that it’s filing for a new union election with the National Labor Relations Board for more than 1,700 production and maintenance…
Protesters Picket Home of Publisher of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
PITTSBURGH, PA. – On Saturday, a pile of dark green plastic Post-Gazette newspaper bags began piling up outside of the mansion of Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Publisher…
Delta Investigation Featured on CBS This Morning Show
Due to the generous $1,000 holiday donations from a Payday reader, I was able to afford $480 for a round trip ticket to Portugal and…