Folks,  Greetings from the Burgh. It’s not quite Payday yet, but we’re switching from our weekly newsletter format to daily strike updates.  Before, we’d see 2-3 strikes in a week; hence a weekly newsletter made sense. Now, we’re dealing with at least 2-3 strikes a day.

Payday’s Strike Wave Map continues to make a big buzz around the country. This weekend, the Houston Chronicle cited the map in its print edition to over in an article entitled “Workers ‘are on their own’ without rules as COVID-19 threat rises”. Currently, we have tracked over 140 strikes

Yesterday, both Chrysler and Ford announced that they would delay restarting production, which initially had been targeted for early May. However, General Motors began advising line managers to come back next week to help restart production the week of May 4th. The UAW quickly called for a halt to recall

Payday Report’s Mike Elk Sat Down to Talk with Veteran Labor Reporter Janine Jackson on the media is misunderstanding workers in the age of COVID-19. (Listen here). Janine Jackson: US news media right now are all about saluting, or celebrating, frontline workers, the heroes of the coronavirus pandemic. That’