Intersectional organizing between the women’s rights movement and the labor movement is largely credited with successfully building support for a nationwide wave of strikes by teachers, a workforce that is 77 percent female. However, a recent attempt by Planned Parenthood of the Rocky Mountain (PPRM) to use the National

Over at the Guardian, Payday Senior Labor Reporter Mike Elk has a profile of why NEA President Lila Eskelsen Garcia is so optimistic about the future of organized labor: As the first Latina president of the NEA, García believes the #MeToo movement against sexual assault and harassment has drawn new

Across the South this spring, teachers have gone on strike in West Virginia, Kentucky, North Carolina, and Oklahoma. Now, teachers union leaders in Louisiana appear to be building for a strike as well there. A recent survey of 3,832 teachers unions statewide showed that 61 percent of teachers support

By Mike Elk with help from Max Zahn It’s Payday folks! Greetings from Hanley, North Carolina, where Payday Report has been out in the field with the Farm Labor Organizing Committee (FLOC). Cooper Paints Himself as Teachers’ Union Hero While Busting Farmworkers’ Union While Democratic North Carolina Governor Roy