Mike Elk is an Emmy-nominated labor reporter. He founded Payday Report using his NLRB settlement from being illegally fired in the union drive at Politico in 2015. Email him at melk@paydayreport.com
Tonight, independent Labor Party candidate Alex Rose has won an at-large Allegheny County Council seat, representing 1.2 million people in Pittsburgh region!
Earlier today, Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy announced that the federal government may shut down some airspace due to concerns about staffing levels among air traffic controllers.
On Thursday at 7 pm, Payday Report will hold a special live session to analyze election results with Ted Hamm, the author of “Run Zohran Run!: Inside Zohran Mamdani’s Sensational Campaign to Become New York City’s First Democratic Socialist Mayor”, which was recently published by OR Books.
“I agree that we need a big tent, but I think that, you hear often about the big tent, that it has to be poor and working people that come into the tent, but I feel like it's the opposite, right?
While the UAW did not release the strike vote authorization number, wnder the UAW constitution, a 2/3rd majority is required to call a strike. The UAW has stated that they reached that threshold easily.