Payday Senior Labor Reporter Mike Elk filed a dispatch for the Guardian looking at how Doug Jones, who hails from a union family, plans to use his office to help labor in the State: On the stump in Alabama, Jones bragged of growing up in a union family as the

It’s Payday, folks. Greeting from the cliffs overlooking the Monongahela River and the Battle of Homestead Historic Site, where Payday Senior Labor Reporter Mike Elk has finally recovered from a two-week bout with a nasty respiratory infection. Thank you, Alabama!  Thank you, Alabama for giving a new burst to

In June, Payday Report exposed that DNC Chair Tom Perez had stumbled in his pledge to provide paid internships at the Democratic National Committee. Now, after much public outrage following Payday’s investigation, we have learned that the DNC intends to implement a paid internship program starting in January 2018.

I. The Stakes: “Right-to-Work” in Pennsylvania Washington, Pennsylvania — When I arrived at the high school gymnasium where the Democrats were holding a convention to pick their nominee for the crucial PA 18 Western Pennsylvania Congressional special election, I couldn’t help but think of my PapPap, Regis “Rege” Holden, a