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Exclusive: Slave-Owner Past of Gardenhire Family Raises Questions in Key Tenn. State Senate Race

Mike Elk Nov 02, 2016 0 Comments

By Mike Elk New historical documents unearthed by Payday Report show that embattled Republican state Senator Todd Gardenhire’s ancestors were involved in the slave trade, raising troubling questions about the family’s slave trading both before and after the Civil War. The new revelations have provoked outrage from some

As McConnell Stays Silent, Mine Workers Warn of Pension Catastrophe This Winter

Mike Elk Oct 28, 2016 0 Comments

By Mike Elk For the past four years, the United Mine Workers of America and their bipartisan coalition of coal state Senators and members of Congress have been stymied in their attempt to get a floor vote for the Miners Protection Act scheduled in the Senate. “Without the immediate passage

JP Prepares for Big Show at Louisville Speed Art Museum

Mike Elk Oct 27, 2016 0 Comments

On this episode of Payday Report, JP goes Even Further on the topic of “Just Transition.” He talks about his brainstorm and project with artist Matthew Moore and the University of Louisville’s Speed Art Museum. For More Information about Matthew go to urbanplougharts.com

Jim Beam Workers Strike in Kentucky - 4,000 GE Workers Vote to Strike - Dreamworks Settles $50 Million Wage Theft Claim - Morgan Fairchild!

Mike Elk Oct 21, 2016 0 Comments

By Mike Elk It’s Payday, folks! Greetings from Chattanooga, Tennessee: The Pittsburgh of the South! Another Union Victory in Chattanooga & UE Scores Big at National Visa Center! This week’s Payday goes out to workers at Ardent Mills in Chattanooga who voted 25-22 to join UFCW Local 1995.

JP Sings About Louisville's Speed Art Museum

Mike Elk Oct 21, 2016 0 Comments

On this week’s episode of the Folk Labor Desk, JP talks about an upcoming project with artist Matthew Moore that he is preparing for at the University of Louisville’s Speed Art Museum. He sings a song by the Stanley Brothers, written in the 1950s, to start a conversation

Exclusive: Slave-Owner Past of Gardenhire Family Raises Questions in Key Tenn. State Senate Race

As McConnell Stays Silent, Mine Workers Warn of Pension Catastrophe This Winter

JP Prepares for Big Show at Louisville Speed Art Museum

Jim Beam Workers Strike in Kentucky - 4,000 GE Workers Vote to Strike - Dreamworks Settles $50 Million Wage Theft Claim - Morgan Fairchild!

JP Sings About Louisville's Speed Art Museum

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