Despite lacking collective bargaining rights, the United Campus Workers (UCW), an affiliate of the Communications Workers of America (CWA), have dealt a death blow to Republican Governor of Tennessee Bill Haslam’s $300 million plan to outsource thousands of custodial, maintenance, and repair jobs throughout the University of Tennessee system.

Greetings from the East End of Pittsburgh where the special election race in the nearby suburban Pennsylvania 18th District is heating up into a three-way battle between Mike Crossey—the retired Pennsylvania State Educators Association president—Gina Cerilli—a Westmoreland County commissioner and former Miss Pennsylvania—and Conor Lamb, a

Payday Report has learned that a flesh-eating bacteria has killed a hurricane cleanup worker in Galveston, Texas. Out of respect for the family, Payday is not releasing details yet, but we will be providing them in the forthcoming days. Yesterday, Payday Senior Labor Reporter Mike Elk, in an investigative piece

Greeting folks, it’s Payday! Happy belated birthday to the dean of labor reporters, longtime New York Times labor correspondent and Guild activist Steven Greenhouse, who is 66. Payday Senior Labor Reporter Mike Elk is in his hometown of Pittsburgh preparing to interview Harry Belafonte at Carnegie Music Hall this