Earlier this month, a record-breaking ICE raid detained over 600 immigrant workers at several meatpacking plants in Mississippi. Quickly, images of small children stranded at school, after learning that their parents’ detention by immigration authorities, began appearing on TV. “I need my dad,” one 11-year-old girl Magdalena cried in a

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Greetings from the Burgh, where I’ve been off from reporting to focus on my forthcoming book tentatively titled “The Labor Reporter’s Panic.”  Payday has raised $165 to $400 Goal to Celebrate 4th Anniversary Folks, to mark the 4th anniversary of my firing from Politico for union organizing, Payday

This week marked the 4th anniversary of my firing from Politico for union organizing in August of 2015. At the time, many said that I would never work again. Indeed, when Politico was negotiating my NLRB settlement in the summer of 2015 with my union, Politico’s lawyers at Littler