In 1968, Martin Luther King Jr. was killed while visiting Memphis, Tennessee to march with the striking sanitation workers there. Fifty-four years later, we are seeing workers, particularly in communities of color, walk in overwhelming numbers. Payday Report has already tracked nearly 1,800 strikes since the beginning of the

Folks,  Greetings from the Burgh, where Payday is slowly getting back into gear as I continue recovering from COVID.  8,000 Grocery Workers Strike at 77 locations in Colorado Today, 8,500 King Soopers workers went on strike at 77 locations throughout Colorado.  The workers went on strike after rejecting

Folks,  It’s Melk. Greetings from the Burgh, where my COVID recovery is entering its fourth week and I am slowly getting back to covering the strike wave. A lot has happened in the three weeks I’ve been off and I hope to get folks up to speed quickly.

Late last fall, “Sorry to Bother You” director Boots Riley and I sat for a wide-ranging discussion. We discussed the strike wave, the failure of labor leaders to understand certain communities, and the need to build an independent media movement.  Boots also gave a preview of his new TV show