By Mike Elk It’s Payday, folks! Greetings from Chattanooga, Tennessee, the Pittsburgh of the South! 2nd Florida Newsroom Unionized! This Lunch Pail goes out to workers at the Sarasota Herald Standard who voted yesterday 22 to 16 to unionize, making them the second unionized newsroom in Florida. Payday Picks

By Kris Warner It’s Payday, folks! Greetings from Houston, Texas, where we’re hoping for vegan taco trucks on every corner. Payday Senior Labor Reporter Mike Elk is out sick. This week’s Lunch Pail is dedicated to the workers at the Center for Community Change who joined our

By Mike Elk The striking thing about being a recent northern immigrant to the South is how often I walk into a bar and hear people talking about Bernie Sanders. As an outsider to the region (I’m a native of the East End of Pittsburgh), I sometimes find it

CounterSpin ran a special Labor Day episode on Friday that included a 2012 interview with Payday Report Senior Labor Reporter Mike Elk. The program is produced by Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting and broadcast on over 130 noncommercial radio stations across the nation. Elk discussed how intellectuals and even people