By Mike Elk Earlier today, the 130 editorial employees of Law360 opted to join the New York NewsGuild. According to the NewsGuild, “an overwhelming majority” of newsroom employees opted to join the Guild. Law360, owned by the LexisNexis Group, is one of the fastest legal news organizations in the country.

By Mike Elk It’s payday folks! Greetings from Chattanooga, Tennessee.   This edition of the Payday Lunch Pail goes out to the workers at the Center for Popular Democracy, who successfully opted this week to join the 1,500 member strong Washington-Baltimore News Guild (WBNG). WBNG has been growing

By Mike Elk Payday has learned that in recent days top officials within organized labor have increasingly been pushing Labor Secretary Tom Perez as their preferred choice for Hillary Clinton’s pick for Vice President, arguing that he could be the forceful voice within the White House that organized labor

By Mike Elk In the early 2000’s, the small but militant Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) launched union drives at Starbucks and Jimmy John’s.  At the time, many in the mainstream labor movement scratched their heads. Traditionally, labor groups believed that the high turnover of fast food