Folks, It’s Payday! Greetings from the farm in Goshen, Ky., where Payday Senior Labor Reporter is preparing to take off for Canton, Miss., as soon as he can raise the money. Payday Raises $415 in Less than 12 hours to Go to Canton, Miss. Folks, Payday is on a

Greetings from back on the farm in Goshen, Ky., where the sheep are just as strange as always and we’ve got the Osborne Brothers on cuz I’m homesick for the hills of Eastern Tennessee. This week Payday is exhausted and bringing you a special Canton, Mississippi Payday Report.

Earlier today, North Carolina Governor Roy Cooper, a Democrat, signed the state’s Farm Act, which prohibits farmworkers’ unions from collecting union dues directly from workers’ paychecks. Labor activists say that the provision in the bill, SB 615, was aimed at the Farm Labor Organizing Committee, which represents 10,000

Today, the United Auto Workers filed a petition with the NLRB asking for a vote for the 6,500- worker plant in Canton, Mississippi. If successful, the vote would top off a historic 14-year long campaign to unionize the plant and would be a major breakthrough for efforts to organize