Mike Elk

Watch: Melk Talks How Established Unions Could Blow “Amazon Moment” in 30 Min Segment w/ RJ Eskow

Mike Elk Apr 12, 2022 0 Comments

Starting this month, Payday Report will be recording a regular monthly half-hour segment on the Zero Hour with Richard Eskow, which has 50,000 subscribers on Youtube. On this month’s segment, we discuss the recent victory at Amazon. We talk about how the independent Amazon Labor Union was able

PA AFL-CIO Prez Being Investigated Over Sexual Harassment - 14,000 Etsy Sellers Strike Over Fee Increase - 300 Howard University Hospital Staffers Str

Mike Elk Apr 11, 2022 0 Comments

Folks, Greetings from Burgh, where we are raising money to pay bills so we can keep covering the amazing energy following the victory at Amazon. Donate to help us cover organizing in wake of the victory. If you can, please sign up as one of our 680 recurring donors today.

As Bozeman Rents Nearly Double, Activists Struggle to Stay

Mike Elk Apr 07, 2022 0 Comments

BOZEMAN, MONTANA – It’s the middle of the afternoon after a heavy snowfall the prior night, and NewsGuild activist and journalist Bob Brigham and I are in the motel parking lot of the Bozeman Inn. “You see that?” he says. He points to the recent snowfall under the wheels of

Biden Encourages Unionization at Amazon - UE Wins MIT Union Drive - 265 Wisc. Autoworkers Strike Over 2-Tier Wage System

Mike Elk Apr 06, 2022 0 Comments

Folks, Greetings from the Burgh, where I feel my energy returning after working on covering the Amazon union drive this weekend. (Check out my coverage from over the weekend.) Thanks to everyone who donated to my long COVID recovery fund so I could have some time to rest after working

Al Jazeera: Melk Talks How Strike Wave Led to Organizing Success at Amazon

Mike Elk Apr 04, 2022 0 Comments

Folks, In the wake of the Amazon victory, I appeared on Al-Jazeera last Friday to talk about how the Strike Wave during the pandemic gave workers a new sense of power and led to the first successful union drive at Amazon on Staten Island. In March of 2020, over 50

Watch: Melk Talks How Established Unions Could Blow “Amazon Moment” in 30 Min Segment w/ RJ Eskow

PA AFL-CIO Prez Being Investigated Over Sexual Harassment - 14,000 Etsy Sellers Strike Over Fee Increase - 300 Howard University Hospital Staffers Str

As Bozeman Rents Nearly Double, Activists Struggle to Stay

Biden Encourages Unionization at Amazon - UE Wins MIT Union Drive - 265 Wisc. Autoworkers Strike Over 2-Tier Wage System

Al Jazeera: Melk Talks How Strike Wave Led to Organizing Success at Amazon

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