As businesses reopen across the United States, many employers are demanding that workers accept concessions to return to work. Few are leading the way more than America’s national pastime: baseball. From minor league baseball players seeking to unionize to broadcasters’ unions facing unprecedented requests to multimillion-dollar players being nickeled-and-dimed,

In 2018, the AFL-CIO honored me immensely when they hung a banner commemorating my coverage of the teachers’ strike in the AFL-CIO’s lobby.  I was so proud to have a banner in the AFL-CIO lobby near priceless labor art, including by my hero UE organizer-turned-painter Ralph Fasanella.  However, now

At a time when most news organizations are cutting staff, Payday Report is one of the few news organizations that is actually expanding. We are expanding because our work and coverage have steadily grown. Our COVID Strike Tracking Map and coverage has won wide praise from NPR’s On the

Payday Report has learned that dozens of reporters employed by the Philadelphia Inquirer are going out on a “sick-out” strike tomorrow over the papers’ coverage of race.  “As journalists of color, we do more than report on the community — we are the community. We do our best to give the