Payday Senior Labor Reporter Mike Elk traveled to the Southern Workers Assembly School in Atlanta to file the following dispatch for the Guardian: “Can unions rebuild the labor movement in the U.S. South?” By Mike Elk Seated around a table in the dimly lit auditorium of Atlanta-based non-profit Project

Greetings from Atlanta, Ga., where Democrat Jon Ossoff’s close runoff congressional election in the Atlanta suburbs highlights how changing political attitudes and demographics in the South could lead to more progressive victories in ballot boxes across the South. Pro-Union Ex-Offender Defeats Incumbent on Chattanooga City Council This week, Demetrus

According to one study, only 31% of Google’s employees are women. The Department of Labor has opened an investigation into whether or not the company discriminates against women. Now the Department of Labor is suing Google to get them to release more internal data on diversity. However, Google is

LOUISVILLE, Ky. — “I’ve , ah, settled a few strikes, like CWA at Verizon,” smiles DNC Chairman Tom Perez as he points to my CWA NewsGuild button. In 2016, following a six-week strike, then-U.S. Department of Labor Secretary Perez got personally involved in order to get Verizon to sit down