For nearly 25 years Mercedes workers in Vance have tried to unionize, but have never gotten so close. Early last month workers at Mercedes reached 50% for the first time in plant history. “I came in ‘98. And they had a campaign going on, and were gaining momentum. And they

https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/paydayreport/Payday_Podcast_-_Mercedes_Worker_Interview_3-1-24_Mix2_3.mp3 By Mike Elk    For nearly 25 years, workers at Mercedes in Vance have tried to unionize but have never gotten closer. Early last month, workers at Mercedes reached 50% for the first time in

RIO DE JANEIRO, BRASIL – Today marks the 459th birthday of Rio de Janeiro, and no bar represents Rio better than the Bar do Omar, which the Monteiros, a family of working-class Brazilian activists, founded. Following the illegal impeachment of Dilma Roussef as President of Brazil in 2015, the Bar do

Greetings from Rio de Janeiro, where an accomplice of Marielle Franco’s assassin has been arrested, but first some breaking news from Detroit. UAW Secretary-Treasurer Demoted in Fight over Organizing Funds Earlier today, the Detroit Free Press broke the story that UAW Secretary-Treasurer Margaret Mock, the running mate of Shawn