Greetings from the top of Lydia Street, where Payday Senior Labor Reporter Mike Elk has returned from an inspiring trip to the historic statewide teachers’…
Payday Senior Labor Reporter Mike Elk traveled to Wheeling, West Virginia, where he filed a dispatch for the Guardian: Despite the state enacting anti-union “right-to-work”…
This Thursday and Friday, thousands of West Virginia Teachers in all 55 counties have voted to go on the first statewide teachers’ strike since 1990….
Payday Report has learned that top SEIU officials have taken to social media to smear women accusing Massachusetts SEIU1199 Executive Director Tyrek D. Lee of…
Greetings from the Burgh, where Payday Senior Labor Reporter Mike Elk spent the week hanging out with the Bowzer of Sha Na Na aka Jon…
“When any worker is under the control of the state—in prison, on probation, etc.—they have little power on the job,” Pulitzer Prize-winning prison historian Heather Ann Thompson told Payday Report. “They can’t demand prevailing wages and safe workplaces. And despite their protestations otherwise, that is exactly why companies hire men and women under correctional control.”
Over at the Guardian, Payday Senior Labor Reporter Mike Elk filed a dispatch looking at how the Black Lives Matter movement is putting pressure on…
WV Teachers Vote to Strike – Lamb Talks Dream Act in #PA18 – Baseball Player Labor Dispute Heats up Greetings from the Burgh, where Payday…
It’s Payday, folks! Greetings from da Burgh where Payday Senior Labor Reporter Mike Elk has been laid up in bed making calls to Payday General…
At the end of the month, Payday Senior Labor Reporter Mike Elk is $1,000 behind where he would have been without getting sick. He’s flat broke, $200 short on the rent, and still recovering from a serious illness.
This week’s Payday goes out to our 150 reporters at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, members of the Pittsburgh NewsGuild, who are currently engaged in a byline strike. The union has also filed unfair labor practices charges with the National Labor Relations Board claiming that the Post-Gazette’s owner, Toledo-based Block Communications, has unilaterally imposed health care costs on the union outside of the scope of collective bargaining.
“As far as whether it should disqualify the film from getting an Oscar, I think it should,” he said. “No one would reward the costume designers who used child slave labor in making the costumes for a movie.”