Payday Senior Labor Reporter Mike Elk traveled to Wheeling, West Virginia, where he filed a dispatch for the Guardian: Despite the state enacting anti-union “right-to-work” legislation in 2016, support for the teachers among the public remains strong in the once union stronghold of West Virginia. On the picket line outside

This Thursday and Friday, thousands of West Virginia Teachers in all 55 counties have voted to go on the first statewide teachers’ strike since 1990. The teachers are protesting poverty-level wages and increasing health care costs. “We can’t wait, and we won’t wait,” said Christine Campbell, president of

Payday Report has learned that top SEIU officials have taken to social media to smear women accusing Massachusetts SEIU1199 Executive Director Tyrek D. Lee of sexual misconduct. Lee was suspended from his job as the head of the 55,000-member SEIU local in December amid allegations of sexual misconduct. According

Greetings from the Burgh, where Payday Senior Labor Reporter Mike Elk spent the week hanging out with the Bowzer of Sha Na Na aka Jon Bauman, President of the Social Security Works PAC, as part of a new Payday Report project to cover poverty among the elderly. Check out this