JP shares two of his original progressive songs, which address the difficulty of union and political poly ticks: “Singing to the Choir,” written for the Sandy Pope union campaign, but now sung for the Teamsters United Slate, and a song written for the Khristy Wilkinson campaign in Chattanooga, Tennessee. JP also covers the classic “Solidarity Forever,” rewritten for a CTU campaign in 2015. This version goes out to public school teachers in Louisville, Kentucky and the Chicago Teachers Union.
Mike Elk is an Emmy-nominated labor reporter and alumni of the Guardian. A native of Pittsburgh, Elk grew up in a UE union family. Elk was the only American reporter in the room with Lula on the morning of the election & traveled with him to the Oval Office. Credited by the Washington Post for being the first reporter to track the strike wave systematically, Elk started Payday Report using his NLRB settlement from being illegally fired for union organizing in 2015. He lives in his hometown of Pittsburgh and attended journalism school at PUC-Rio de Janeiro. He speaks both Portuguese and Pittsburgh fluently. His email is [email protected]
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