https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/paydayreport/Payday_Podcast_-_Mercedes_Worker_Interview_3-1-24_Mix2_3.mp3 By Mike Elk    For nearly 25 years, workers at Mercedes in Vance have tried to unionize but have never gotten closer. Early last month, workers at Mercedes reached 50% for the first time in

RIO DE JANEIRO, BRASIL – Today marks the 459th birthday of Rio de Janeiro, and no bar represents Rio better than the Bar do Omar, which the Monteiros, a family of working-class Brazilian activists, founded. Following the illegal impeachment of Dilma Roussef as President of Brazil in 2015, the Bar do

Greetings from Rio de Janeiro, where an accomplice of Marielle Franco’s assassin has been arrested, but first some breaking news from Detroit. UAW Secretary-Treasurer Demoted in Fight over Organizing Funds Earlier today, the Detroit Free Press broke the story that UAW Secretary-Treasurer Margaret Mock, the running mate of Shawn

This week, as part of our podcast, Payday Report spoke to Lori Knapp and her lawyer, Jon Ruschdeki, who have been involved in a 6-year lawsuit against Koch Industries-owned Georgia Pacific, but have yet to see their day in court. The lawsuit stems from her father, Ed Chapman’s death