Over at the Guardian, Payday Senior Labor Reporter Mike Elk filed a dispatch for the Guardian from the Tuscon May Day protest, where teachers are winding the first-ever statewide strike in Arizona history: “We’re teachers and we do everything that we are supposed to do. Teachers become teachers, [and]

North Carolina Teachers to Strike in May – Louisiana Teachers Could Follow – Georgia Bus Drivers Fired for Striking By Mike Elk with help from Max Zahn. Greeting from the mountains outside of Tucson, Arizona where Payday Senior Labor Reporter Mike Elk after spending 5 weeks on road, finally got the weekend

PHOENIX – For miles around, tens of thousands of people desperately searched for parking as they made their way to Chase Field, home of the Arizona Diamondbacks, to begin their march on the Arizona State Capitol. Over 50,000 showed up according to the AP, crowds nearly five times those seen

Payday Senior Labor Reporter Mike Elk filed a dispatch from Phoenix from the Guardian: Unlike West Virginia or Oklahoma, the issues of immigration will probably take center stage in Arizona, as nearly 45% of the school system’s students are Latino and more than half of Arizona’s public school