Auto technicians picketing in front of the Mercedes Benz San Diego dealership in Kearny Mesa wave at passing cars on June 27. (Rob Nikolewski/The San Diego Union-Tribune)
With production costs donated by WeAct Radio, Payday Report is excited to launch our first podcast. Each week, we will be bringing labor news from around the country and the world.
This week, we discuss the Writers’ Guild strike in Hollywood, the massive federal workers’ strike in Canada, and the death of Harry Belafonte.
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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