Folks, This morning, I woke up to $50 donation from Writers Guild of America East leader Hamilton Nolan, a pioneering union leader in the digital media unionization, who helped lead the landmark campaign at Gawker as that publication’s labor reporter nearly four years ago. Hamilton’s donation brings Payday

Folks, Greetings from the Burgh, where Payday Senior Labor Reporter Mike Elk is working through another bout of strep throat (his fifth this year), but still keeping things moving. Melk Needs to Have Tonsils Removed, But No Health Insurance Bad news folks, I have had strep throat five times in

Last week, Payday reported on how Paul Ryan’s Super Pac, the Congressional Leadership Fund, was spending millions of dollars on misleading ads that falsely accused Ironworkers union leader Randy Bryce, who is running against Ryan’s longtime aide Bryan Steil, of being a “deadbeat dad.” Now, Randy Bryce’s

Payday Senior Labor Reporter filed a dispatch from Pittsburgh for the Guardian looking at the closing days of Sears, which declared bankruptcy earlier this week: For generations, Sears served the middle market of working-class homeowners hoping to buy high-quality products, but who could not afford to make the purchases outright