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Mike Elk on Democracy Now! Talks About How Democratic School Boards are Helping Oklahoma Strike

Mike Elk Apr 04, 2018 0 Comments

Earlier today, Payday Senior Labor Reporter Mike Elk appeared on Democracy Now. “In some of these school districts, the Democratic superintendents of the schools are actually quite supportive, because of how bad the funding cuts are,” Elk told Amy Goodman on Democracy Now this morning. “My colleague and I, Karina

“It’s like the Arab spring, but it’s a teacher spring,”

Mike Elk Apr 04, 2018 0 Comments

From Oklahoma City, Payday Senior Labor Reporter Mike Elk filed a dispatch for the Guardian on the Teacher’s Strike: Leaning over the overpass going under the Oklahoma State Capitol Complex, a group of a dozen women in rain jackets hold signs as oil tankers pass under, honking their horns

Oklahoma Teachers Launch 110 Mile March to Put Pressure on Legislature

Mike Elk Apr 04, 2018 0 Comments

Payday Senior Labor Reporter Mike Elk filed a dispatch for the Guardian from Tulsa on the launch of a 110-mile march across the state to put pressure on the state legislature: Special education teacher Patricia Mott, 66, said she hoped to do the entire march each day, but the battery

Wave of teachers' wildcat strikes spreads to Oklahoma and Kentucky

Mike Elk Apr 02, 2018 0 Comments

From the Woody Guthrie Center in Tulsa, Payday Senior Labor Reporter Mike Elk filed a dispatch for the Guardian: On Easter Sunday in Tulsa, Oklahoma, those not found in the church could be found touring the Woody Guthrie center downtown. Easter weekend is a time for families and this weekend

As Payday Hits & Strike Deadline Looms, Labor Divided in Oklahoma Over Taking "$6,000 raise"

Mike Elk Mar 30, 2018 0 Comments

The Oklahoma Senate and State House have passed a $6,000 pay raise and it appears that teachers’ unions in the state are divided about whether to engage in a potentially illegal walkout on Monday, April 2nd. The offer is $4,000 less a year than teachers initially requested and

Mike Elk on Democracy Now! Talks About How Democratic School Boards are Helping Oklahoma Strike

“It’s like the Arab spring, but it’s a teacher spring,”

Oklahoma Teachers Launch 110 Mile March to Put Pressure on Legislature

Wave of teachers' wildcat strikes spreads to Oklahoma and Kentucky

As Payday Hits & Strike Deadline Looms, Labor Divided in Oklahoma Over Taking "$6,000 raise"

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