As part of our fundraiser to help Payday Report senior labor reporter Mike Elk afford a summer vacation, critically acclaimed labor reporter Steve Early has offered to give a signed copy of his book “Refinery Town: Big Oil, Big Money, and the Remaking of an American City” to anyone who

Folks, Right-wing publications have mocked me in the past for raising money for vacations. However, as a freelance labor reporter, I don’t have paid vacation days. If I don’t work, I don’t get paid. The only way for me to afford a vacation is to crowdraise money.

Writing for the Guardian, Payday Senior Labor Reporter Mike Elk filed a dispatch on the new energy in teachers’ unions: “We are all militant again, we will all go to jail if we have to,” said Robert Russo, a teacher union leader from New Jersey who served 15 days in

On Tuesday, the Trump Administration issued an executive order that many fear will undermine the independence of administrative law judges (ALJs). The executive order would make ALJs, who are currently civil servants, into political appointees. The move was met by widespread denunciations by many of the judges. “This change will