“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.”
Greeting from the cliffs overlooking the Monongahela River, where workers are pushing against the anti-union agenda of Rick Saccone in a dogfight against “right-to-work” in…
“Not only is Rick Saccone the first Republican to ever refuse to fill out the AFL-CIO’s endorsement questionnaire in the 18th Congressional District, but now he is refusing to allow labor reporters into his events because I think he’s scared of getting questions about his anti-union and anti-immigrant record,” Elk added.
“In Western Pennsylvania, it’s no surprise that we put a statue to one of our great labor leaders right there in the churchyard for everyone to see forever,” said Lamb. “It helps us remember who to say thank you to, and it helps remember that service is the rent we pay for living.”
Payday Senior Labor Reporter Mike Elk filed a dispatch for the Guardian examining how little has changed since the 1969 Charleston Nurses Strike: Workers at…
A win for Democrats in the district could give Westmoreland County Democrats the boost of confidence they need to take their rebuilding efforts even further.