Folks,
Greetings from Rio de Janeiro, where I am getting ready to ship out to the countryside to finish our documentary on the Landless Workers’ Movement (MST).
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Earlier today, Payday wrote to our
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Folks,
Greetings from Rio de Janeiro, where I am exhausted after travel and several weeks of reporting on Payday’s major feature “Over 8,000 Joined Entertainment Unions in 49 Campaigns During the Hollywood Strikes”.
Help Pay for Our 7 Month Study of Organizing during the Hollywood Strikes
Our in-depth
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By Rodrigo Dutra & Mike Elk
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRASIL – On Wednesday, in Rio de Janeiro, thousands of educators, members of the National Education Workers Alliance (CNTE), went on strike as part of a nationwide strike that mobilized over 150,000 educators and school employees from various unions throughout the
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In May of 2020, nearly a third of workers at a Tyson Foods plant in Waterloo, Iowa contracted COVID-19. Like many workers at the time, they sought out their local union for support, UFCW Local 431. However, they “…kept waiting and waiting, and nothing,” Joe Gorton, former union president at
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By Christine Bolaños & Mike Elk
AUSTIN — Her hair pulled back into a ponytail, donning a burgundy blouse with flower petals and a wide smile that illuminates her olive-skinned, naturally-glowing face, Maria Duque Ortega enthusiastically asks a waitress about the Salvadoran drinks on the lunch menu.
Sometimes the names of
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