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Folks, Payday is hoping to raise $1,000 to help continue to cover the West Virginia Teachers’ Strike this week.   Help Us Reach Our Goal…

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….

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.

“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.

Join us this Friday January 12th at the Church Brew Works for our first monthly Payday Happy Hour hosted by Payday Report.

  As we take on big investigative projects like Payday’s groundbreaking investigation into cover-ups of sexual misconduct at SEIU, Payday Report is excited to announce…

Folks, This week was a big week for us as my former employer Politico, which illegally fired me for union organizing in 2015, cited Payday’s…

Payday will continue to focus heavily on the South and new organizing, but our aim will be to connect the struggles of traditional union strongholds of the Rust Belt and Appalachia with those in the South. While the North is being hollowed out and de-unionized, and factories move from North to South, the ranks of organized labor in the South are growing.

Help Us Reach Our Goal of $1,700. Donate Here! For the past year, I haven’t exactly been homeless, but I haven’t exactly had a home….

I cried when I first watched my friend Randy Bryce in his now viral TV ad as he remarked: “If someone falls behind, we are so…

Payday needs your help to expand our labor coverage in the South even more. As a publication, we have done more coverage of union organizing…

Earlier, this month long time New York Times labor reporter and Payday Senior Labor Reporter Mike Elk sat down with Rose Augilar of the local NPR affiliate KALW to to talk about the struggles of the labor press.