Mike Elk

OSHA Starts Crack Down on Southern Poultry Plants, But Will Non-Union Workers Talk?

Mike Elk Aug 18, 2016 0 Comments

By Mike Elk Earlier this month, we reported on a groundbreaking Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) citation issued against a Pilgrim’s Pride poultry plant in northern Florida for failing to allow workers to seek outside medical help after getting hurt on the job. This week, OSHA issued another

1st Florida Paper Unionizes - Unpaid Sailors Stranded Off Georgia Coast - Feds Enforce Immigration Laws, Ignore Workplace Dangers - #EqualPlayEqualPay

Mike Elk Aug 12, 2016 0 Comments

By Mike Elk and Kris Warner It’s Payday, Folks! Greetings from the Pittsburgh of the South: Chattanooga, Tennessee! Lakeland Ledger Becomes First Florida Publication to Unionize This Lunch Pail goes to out to the journalists at the Lakeland Ledger in Lakeland, Florida, who voted 22-3 yesterday to join the

JP Sings about Berniecrat Khristy Wilkinson, TDU, & #law360union #firegardenhire

Mike Elk Aug 10, 2016 0 Comments

JP shares two of his original progressive songs, which address the difficulty of union and political poly ticks: “Singing to the Choir,” written for the Sandy Pope union campaign, but now sung for the Teamsters United Slate, and a song written for the Khristy Wilkinson campaign in Chattanooga, Tennessee. JP

Yuuuge Birdiecrat Upset in Tenn State Senate Primary - Anti-Union Southwest CEO in Trouble - Job Numbers - #FireGardenhire

Mike Elk Aug 05, 2016 0 Comments

By Mike Elk and Kris Warner It’s Payday, Folks! Greetings from the Pittsburgh of the South: Chattanooga, Tennessee! This Lunch Pail goes out to all the Mercedes workers at UAW Local 112 in Vance, Alabama. Despite having faced illegal anti-union intimidation, the workers there are still struggling to organize

JP Covers "Which Side Are You On?" and Dedicates a Song to Bill Moyer and Bill McKibben

Mike Elk Aug 04, 2016 0 Comments

This episode of the Folk Labor Desk is a special episode made while JP laid over at his away-from-home terminal in Nashville, TN. It features poetry about contemporary life on the railroad from a fellow locomotive engineer, Cary Depew, as well as the classic union song “Which Side Are You

OSHA Starts Crack Down on Southern Poultry Plants, But Will Non-Union Workers Talk?

1st Florida Paper Unionizes - Unpaid Sailors Stranded Off Georgia Coast - Feds Enforce Immigration Laws, Ignore Workplace Dangers - #EqualPlayEqualPay

JP Sings about Berniecrat Khristy Wilkinson, TDU, & #law360union #firegardenhire

Yuuuge Birdiecrat Upset in Tenn State Senate Primary - Anti-Union Southwest CEO in Trouble - Job Numbers - #FireGardenhire

JP Covers "Which Side Are You On?" and Dedicates a Song to Bill Moyer and Bill McKibben

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