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

On Monday, the Trump Administration implemented new rules that would dramatically lower the legal threshold needed to fire unionized federal workers. At the same time as the rules are being weakened, the Trump Administration has moved to ban shop stewards from representing workers in disciplinary and grievance hearings.   Now, in

Too Broke to See Pirates Take on Phillies This Weekend Folks, greetings from the Hill District, where its payday and Payday senior labor reporter Mike Elk is flat broke and hoping to see the Buccos take on the Phillies this weekend. We’ve raised $2207 to dig out of a