New York Times Cites Our Coverage of GM Strike

UAW members picket in Rochester, New York last fall (Zach D. Roberts)

By: Mike Elk September 17, 2019

Payday is having a huge impact on national coverage of the GM strike.

Today, the New York Times’ David Leonhardt in an op-ed entitled “Why I Am Rooting for the GM Strikers” cited our work (co-published with the American Prospect) on the GM strike and how union corruption sunk the union drive in Chattanooga, which builds on the work Payday did down south earlier this summer. 

Not only is the New York Times citing us, but our work at Payday is going viral. One photo, we took of GM workers taking their position on picket line Sunday night in Rochester got over a MILLION views on twitter. The post was translated into over a dozen languages, garnering nearly 4,000 retweets and over 12,000 likes. 

The readers of Payday Report with their generous donations are making this possible. Now, we are the way on our way to Ohio to get more stories. Pass the hat and donate today. 

We will have another story out later today, but first check out this funny video we took of a pro-union cop talking with striking workers blocking a union buster from leaving the plant. 

Once again, pass the hat and donate today. 

Love and Solidarity, 

Melk 

About the Author

Mike Elk
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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