33% of Meat Production Shut Down – Top Union Buster Warns of Union Support – Rest in Power Willie Levi
Folks, Greetings from the Burgh on this May Day. $698 Raised This May Day So far, our fundraising for May Day has been going great…
4,400 Meatpackers Have COVID – Trump Relaxes OSHA Meatpacking Rules – GOP Govs Block Unemployment for Meatpackers
Greetings from the Burgh, but our heart is out in Rural America, where meatpackers are facing brutal conditions. Our heart goes out to all the…
Vice Profiles Payday’s Work Covering COVID-19 Strike Wave
Vice profiled Payday’s effort to track the over 150 strikes that have happened because of COVID-19: “What’s happened is that workers traditionally are scared of…
What Immigrant Hurricane Clean-Up Workers Can Teach Labor About COVID-19 Response
This article is part of an American Prospect symposium on “The Future of Labor.” “People have anxiety and always rush to return to normalcy as…
After 5 Workers Die, JBS Threatens to Sue UFCW – Greensboro Transit Workers Strike – Truckers Strike Could Be Next?
Greetings from the Burgh, where we are employers increasingly fighting back against striking workers. 153 Strikes on the Board Folks, there are now 153 strikes…
Defying Trump’s Order, Nebraska Meatpackers Strike – PA National Guard Replaces Striking Nurses – Richmond Threatens to Fire Striking Bus Drivers
Folks, Greetings from the Burgh. It’s not quite Payday yet, but we’re switching from our weekly newsletter format to daily strike updates. Before, we’d see…
Houston Chronicle Cites Payday’s Strike Tracker Map to 800,000 Print Subscribers
Payday’s Strike Wave Map continues to make a big buzz around the country. This weekend, the Houston Chronicle cited the map in its print edition…
With 23 UAW Members Dead, UAW Halts Big 3 Reopening Next Week
Yesterday, both Chrysler and Ford announced that they would delay restarting production, which initially had been targeted for early May. However, General Motors began advising…
Melk Talks W/ CounterSpin’s Janine Jackson on Labor Reporting during COVID-19
Payday Report’s Mike Elk Sat Down to Talk with Veteran Labor Reporter Janine Jackson on the media is misunderstanding workers in the age of COVID-19….
Immigrant Meatpackers Fightback Against Intimidation & Death Traps
As COVID-19 ravages communities across the U.S., many experts agree that meatpacking plants, where employees work shoulder-to-shoulder, are the next ground zero for the spread…
Democratic Officials Move to Suspend Union Contracts During COVID-19
While many are praising the work that essential public employees are doing during the COVID-19 pandemic, some politicians are working quietly behind the scenes to…
13,000 Carpenters Refuse to Work in Massachusetts
With the Trump Administration blocking OSHA from issuing regulations to protect workers from COVID-19, workers across the United States have instead been subject to an…