By Mike Elk Payday has learned that in recent days top officials within organized labor have increasingly been pushing Labor Secretary Tom Perez as their preferred choice for Hillary Clinton’s pick for Vice President, arguing that he could be the forceful voice within the White House that organized labor

By Mike Elk In the early 2000’s, the small but militant Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) launched union drives at Starbucks and Jimmy John’s.  At the time, many in the mainstream labor movement scratched their heads. Traditionally, labor groups believed that the high turnover of fast food

By Mike Elk Welcome to the inaugural edition of the Payday Lunch Pail. Each Friday around lunch time, maybe that sometimes means lunch time on the West Coast or lunch time in Chicago, we will strive to give our readers something to enjoy on a Payday. Payday Report is going

This week on the Folk Labor Desk, JP talks very personally about the tragic head-on collision between two freight trains in the panhandle of Texas, which has left three railroad workers dead and one injured, and gives a sneak peak of a draft of a new version of a Casey