Writing a dispatch from Texas for the Guardian, Mike Elk reports back on what potential the LA Teachers’ Strike could have as well as the brewing support for a strike in Texas:
Even in Texas, where the law allows the state to strip teachers of their pension and certification if
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Writing in the op-ed pages of the Houston Chronicle, the hometown paper of the fourth largest city in America, Payday Senior Labor Reporter Mike Elk lays out a vision for how rebuilding the labor press is essential organizing task of the labor movement:
Last year, more than 80,000 people
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Greetings from Louisville. Earlier today, I went out to visit my friend JP Wright on the historic steamboat, the SS Belle of Louisville, where he works.
Before the trip, I had so much anxiety about
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It’s Payday folks. Greetings from the Fe y Justicia Worker Center in Houston, Texas, where Payday is reporting on the one-year anniversary of Hurricane Harvey and the effect that it has had on workers here.
Payday just wrapped up a great visit to Austin, where we met with leaders
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Writing for the Guardian, Payday Senior Labor Reporter Mike Elk has an exclusive look at how one of the Pentagon’s cafeteria workers is facing debarment proceedings over their refusal to pay their workers’ wages in line with the Service Contract Act:
Seven Hills, the food services company that manages
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