Across the South this spring, teachers have gone on strike in West Virginia, Kentucky, North Carolina, and Oklahoma. Now, teachers union leaders in Louisiana appear to be building for a strike as well there. A recent survey of 3,832 teachers unions statewide showed that 61 percent of teachers support

By Mike Elk with help from Max Zahn It’s Payday folks! Greetings from Hanley, North Carolina, where Payday Report has been out in the field with the Farm Labor Organizing Committee (FLOC). Cooper Paints Himself as Teachers’ Union Hero While Busting Farmworkers’ Union While Democratic North Carolina Governor Roy

Over at the Guardian, Payday Senior Labor Reporter Mike Elk filed a dispatch for the Guardian from the North Carolina’s one-day teachers’ strike: As news helicopters hovered overhead and the rain began to pick up, the National Education Association vice-president, Becky Pringle, a 31-year veteran of the classroom, took

As North Carolina teachers go out on strike tomorrow, they will be joined by the ranks of the state’s construction unions. Much like teachers, who lack the right to collective bargaining in the state, construction workers employed on North Carolina’s state-funded projects, such as schools, lack the ability