Mike Elk

Steelworkers Heckle Black Pa. State Rep at Air Quality Crisis Hearing in Pittsburgh

Mike Elk Feb 08, 2019 0 Comments

CLAIRTON, PENNSYLVANIA – While historic Green New Deal legislation was being introduced by Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) and Senator Edward Markey (D-MA) 230 miles to the South in Washington, D.C, dozens of men dressed in matching orange jackets with metallic reflector strips and orange pants waited patiently to slowly cram

Va. Gov Faces Criticism Over Teacher Pay Raise - Recently Unionized Memphis Plant Closes - Another Round of Mass Media Layoffs

Mike Elk Feb 01, 2019 0 Comments

Greetings from the Burgh, where it feels good to be back home, but after paying the rent and Virginia travel costs, I am once again broke. It’s Payday, spare a few bucks for a labor reporter to buy a beer if you can. Vice Layoffs 250, McClatchy Newspaper Lays

10,000 March during Historic Virginia Teachers' Walkout

Mike Elk Jan 29, 2019 0 Comments

Writing for Guardian, Payday Senior Labor Reporter Mike Elk filed a dispatch from Richmond on a historic day for educators in the Commonwealth State: “I am ecstatic about today’s turnout especially because sometimes, we as teachers don’t always come out, we don’t always speak out, we don’

Virginia students learn in trailers while state offers Amazon huge tax breaks

Mike Elk Jan 28, 2019 0 Comments

Filing a dispatch for the Guardian, Payday Senior Labor Reporter Mike Elk has a look at education funding inequities in Virginia: As a freezing rain poured down on Virginia last week, a student dressed in only a light red sweater made a mad 40-yard dash from her modular trailer classroom

IMPACT: Conor Lamb's Wife, Hayley Hadelman, Resigns from Jones Day Following Payday Expose

Mike Elk Jan 26, 2019 0 Comments

Last month, Payday Report published an expose revealing the financial conflicts of interest posed by Congressman Conor Lamb (D-PA) marrying Hayley Haldeman. Lamb, who was heavily backed organized labor in his campaigns, married Haldeman, worked as a lawyer at the notoriously anti-union law firm Jones Day, who specialized primarily in

Steelworkers Heckle Black Pa. State Rep at Air Quality Crisis Hearing in Pittsburgh

Va. Gov Faces Criticism Over Teacher Pay Raise - Recently Unionized Memphis Plant Closes - Another Round of Mass Media Layoffs

10,000 March during Historic Virginia Teachers' Walkout

Virginia students learn in trailers while state offers Amazon huge tax breaks

IMPACT: Conor Lamb's Wife, Hayley Hadelman, Resigns from Jones Day Following Payday Expose

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