Requiem for a Steelworker: Mon Valley Memories of Oil Can Eddie
In progressive circles in the upper mid-west today, if you’ve heard the name Sadlowski, it’s probably because you were involved in the Wisconsin labor uprising…
Tenn. Activists Wins Release of 35 Immigrants – 13 Cities in South Deny Utilities to Undocumented – Rent Strikes on the Rise
Greetings from the historic Hill District neighborhood of Pittsburgh, where Payday senior labor reporter Mike Elk just moved into a mixed-income affordable housing community. We’re…
Latinos and Labor Form New Alliances Against Wage Theft As Construction Booms in Pittsburgh
O’HARA, PENNSYLVANIA – Popping out of the luscious greenery along the banks of the Allegheny River emerges the head of a giant 15-foot tall brown…
260,000 Teamsters Vote to Strike – After Ohio ICE Raid, Industry Complains – Disabled Workers Strike at Army Base in Virginia
Payday Labor Reporting Mobile “Judge Hanson” Out-of-Action Greetings from the Burgh, where Payday’s senior labor reporter is planning an epic fundraiser to buy a new…
Pittsburgh’s Construction Unions Help Formerly Incarcerated Find Union Apprenticeships
PITTSBURGH, PA – “Why do you want something in life?” asks Dietra Washington askes a class of 15 pre-union apprenticeship students “You have to find…
Guardian Portrait of UE Local 150’s First Picnic in Greensboro, North Carolina
Writing for the Guardian, Payday Senior Labor Reporter Mike Elk paints a portrait of UE Local 150’s first picnic in Greensboro, North Carolina: Charles French, the…
Boeing Workers Vote To Unionize in Historic Union Election in South Carolina
Update: Boeing workers in Charleston, South Carolina have voted Thursday to unionize with the Machinists Union by a margin of 104-65. The victory wins organized labor…
IMPACT: Payday Forces Nutting-Owned Newspaper to Cover West Virginia Strike
Last Friday, Payday brought you the story of 30 Machinists out on strike at the Tecnocap in Glen Dale, West Virginia for over 7 weeks….
Pittsburgh Pirates Owner’s Newspapers Refuse to Cover Machinist Strike in West Virginia
GLEN DALE, WEST VIRGINIA – Ten miles south of Wheeling West Virginia on Route 250, sits a giant inflatable rat “Scabby” hovering over a porta…
Planned Parenthood Group Moves to Use Trump’s NLRB to Bust Union
Intersectional organizing between the women’s rights movement and the labor movement is largely credited with successfully building support for a nationwide wave of strikes by…
Guardian Profile of the First Latina Leader of the National Education Association
Over at the Guardian, Payday Senior Labor Reporter Mike Elk has a profile of why NEA President Lila Eskelsen Garcia is so optimistic about the…
61% of Louisiana Teachers Want to Strike According to Union Survey
Across the South this spring, teachers have gone on strike in West Virginia, Kentucky, North Carolina, and Oklahoma. Now, teachers union leaders in Louisiana appear…