Mike Elk

Elk Talks Organizing in West Virginia on FAIR’s CounterSpin

Mike Elk Sep 04, 2016 0 Comments

CounterSpin ran a special Labor Day episode on Friday that included a 2012 interview with Payday Report Senior Labor Reporter Mike Elk. The program is produced by Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting and broadcast on over 130 noncommercial radio stations across the nation. Elk discussed how intellectuals and even people

A Brighter Day – Happy Labor Day 2016

Mike Elk Sep 03, 2016 0 Comments

For this Labor Day weekend, JP brings us a new song he wrote, dedicated to his son and his brothers and sisters at work. If you’d like to buy any of JP’s music, you can do so here. Happy Labor Day! Lyrics: This pencil that I wear in

VW Disobeys NLRB Order - Virginia Lipton Workers Vote UFCW - Tenn Spike in Workplace Deaths - Gallup Poll on Unions

Mike Elk Sep 02, 2016 0 Comments

By Mike Elk It’s Payday, folks! Greetings from Chattanooga, Tennessee: the Pittsburgh of the South, where Payday is having a co-op retreat this weekend. Virginia-Based Lipton Workers Join UFCW & Florida Drivers Join Teamsters This week’s Lunch Pail goes out to the 200 Lipton Tea Workers in Suffolk,

Take Our Southern Labor Media Survey

Mike Elk Sep 01, 2016 0 Comments

Payday Report is conducting a survey in order to help us provide better coverage of the Southern labor movement. If you live in the South (as broadly defined by the U.S. Census) and are involved in the labor movement, please go here to take this brief survey on your

Fundraising Goal Surpassed - Help Us Get to $600/month!

Mike Elk Aug 31, 2016 0 Comments

At the beginning of this month, we gave ourselves a goal of bringing in 10 additional dues-paying readers. With less than a day to go, we’ve reached 13! In all, our supporters are contributing $576/month to our efforts to report on the labor movement in the South. Will

Elk Talks Organizing in West Virginia on FAIR’s CounterSpin

A Brighter Day – Happy Labor Day 2016

VW Disobeys NLRB Order - Virginia Lipton Workers Vote UFCW - Tenn Spike in Workplace Deaths - Gallup Poll on Unions

Take Our Southern Labor Media Survey

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