North Carolina Teachers to Strike in May – Louisiana Teachers Could Follow – Georgia Bus Drivers Fired for Striking By Mike Elk with help from…
Greetings from the top of Lydia Street, where Payday Senior Labor Reporter Mike Elk has returned from an inspiring trip to the historic statewide teachers’…
Greetings from the Burgh, where Payday Senior Labor Reporter Mike Elk spent the week hanging out with the Bowzer of Sha Na Na aka Jon…
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…
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.
On Thursday, the Ending Spending Super Pac backed by billionaire Chicago Cubs owners Joe Ricketts, who fired 115 reporters at Gothamist and DNAInfo after they unionized in November, announced a $1 million ad buy in the #Pa18 Special Election.
It’s Payday, folks. Greeting from the cliffs overlooking the Monongahela River and the Battle of Homestead Historic Site, where Payday Senior Labor Reporter Mike Elk…
While union density is dying in the coalfields, immigrants workers are building union strength elsewhere in the bluegrass state.
It’s Payday folks! Greeting from the Paris of Appalachia: Pittsburgh, PA, where Payday Senior Labor Reporter has secured a sweet flat in his hometown. But…
Greetings from the East End of Pittsburgh where the special election race in the nearby suburban Pennsylvania 18th District is heating up into a three-way…
Greetings folks from Judge Hanson’s house in Conneaut Lake, Pennsylvania, where Payday is stranded in a bureaucratic car registration mess of epic, interstate proportions. …