Mike Elk is an Emmy-nominated labor reporter. He founded Payday Report using his NLRB settlement from being illegally fired in the union drive at Politico in 2015. Email him at melk@paydayreport.com
Folks,
Greetings from the Burgh, where local PBS TV station WQED announced that they intended to lay off 19 employees.
WQED to Lay Off 19 Employees
WQED was the 1st public television station in the United States and for many years the broadcasting home of Mr. Rogers’ Neighborhood.
Earlier today,
Folks,
Good morning from Pittsburgh, where we are tracking a big story for the labor movement: Amazon Labor Union founder Chris Smalls was beaten after the IDF arrested him while trying to break the siege of Gaza with the Freedom Flotilla Coalition.
(See our story "Amazon Union Leader Chris
On Monday, details emerged that not only was Smalls detained, but he was physically beaten by the IDF. He was the only Black member of the Freedom Flotilla on the Handala.
Earlier this month, Lowell Howell resigned as the executive director of the NFL Players Association, after a series of exposes raising legal concerns about his conduct.