Help Us Travel to Cover North Carolina’s Teachers’ Walkout on May 16th
Protesters cheers as they gather on Halifax Mall near the General Assembly on Monday, June 3, 2013, in Raleigh, N.C. More than 100 people have been arrested in the largest demonstrations yet in the state chapter of the NAACP's campaign against the Republican-led General Assembly. Police estimate that roughly 1,000 people attended a rally late Monday afternoon behind the Legislative Building on Halifax Mall. Hundreds later entered the building, with those intending to get arrested wearing green wrist bands. (AP Photo/The News & Observer, Chris Seward)
Payday Report is proud to say that we were the only publication on the left that was able to afford to be on the ground in West Virginia, Oklahoma, and Arizona.
Tomorrow, we are shipping out to North Carolina, where teachers are preparing to walkout for at least one-day on May 16th to mark the beginning of the North Carolina General Assembly.
We are already to go to North Carolina, but we will need your help to stay on the ground and get the story of how workers are pushing back in North Carolina, where just 3% of workers belong to unions.
However, labor is on the march as 13 different cities have passed living wage ordinances for their public employees.
Mike Elk is an Emmy-nominated labor reporter who covered everything from Lula & the Brazilian labor movement to major league baseball. He spent years covering union organizing in the South for The Guardian and was labeled by the New York Times as an "abrasive gadfly" for exposing within the labor movement.
Raised in a UE union family in Pittsburgh, Elk was illegally for union organizing at Politico in 2015 and used his NLRB settlement to start the crowd-funded Payday Report. He lives in his hometown of Pittsburgh and is fluent in both Pittsburghese and Portuguese, which he learned when attending journalism school at PUC-Rio de Janerio. Email: [email protected]
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