Writing for Guardian, Payday Senior Labor Reporter Mike Elk filed a dispatch from Richmond on a historic day for educators in the Commonwealth State: “I am ecstatic about today’s turnout especially because sometimes, we as teachers don’t always come out, we don’t always speak out, we don’

Filing a dispatch for the Guardian, Payday Senior Labor Reporter Mike Elk has a look at education funding inequities in Virginia: As a freezing rain poured down on Virginia last week, a student dressed in only a light red sweater made a mad 40-yard dash from her modular trailer classroom

Last month, Payday Report published an expose revealing the financial conflicts of interest posed by Congressman Conor Lamb (D-PA) marrying Hayley Haldeman. Lamb, who was heavily backed organized labor in his campaigns, married Haldeman, worked as a lawyer at the notoriously anti-union law firm Jones Day, who specialized primarily in

On January 28th, thousands of teachers are expected to take the day off from school to attend a rally organized by the Virginia Educators United, a rank-and-file organization comprised of teachers from various unions that is calling for greater education funding. The one-day walkout was initially organized by the Virginia