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Mike Elk

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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

IATSE Struggles to Sell Proposed Deal to Membership

LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA – With IATSE facing intense backlash from its film production members over its proposed deal, the union has kicked into overdrive to sell the tentative agreement through town halls, social media posts, and one-on-one meetings.  But instead of allowing their members to vote on ratification of

Help Us Cover Wildcat Strike Movement Bucking Union Leadership

The dissatisfaction in Hollywood with the proposed IATSE deal reminds me of the mood during the West Virginia teachers’ strike in 2018 when teachers rejected a tentative agreement proposed by their union leaders and went on wildcat strikes anyway. The determination of those West Virginia rank and file teachers to
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