BROOKWOOD, ALABAMA – “Look I ain’t been to sleep since yesterday,” said United Mine Workers of America District 20 Representative Larry Spencer as we arrived outside of UMWA Local Union Hall 2397 on Friday around noon.  Spencer wasn’t the only one who hadn’t gotten much sleep at the

(Note: None of these anti-union workers that we interviewed provided by Amazon, but were meet randomly in the parking lot of the warehouse, independent of the company anti-union PR efforts. You can watch all the interviews with anti-union workers here) While captive audience meetings are often depicted as being hostile

As I was talking on the phone to my old activist friend Austin Sauerbrei-Brown about how I felt traveling down to cover the Amazon union election, I found myself reflecting on the nearly decade-long battle to unionize Volkswagen in Chattanooga.  My friend Austin was the first paid organizer in many

Payday Report is excited to announce the creation of the Bill Greider Grant for Labor Reporting.  The first recipient is Alexander Richey, a Northern Alabama native. Richey has already been on the ground helping Payday Report and franknews cover the historic union drive at Amazon in Bessemer, Alabama.  Richey is