“It could really shake things up,” IWW organizer Jimi Del Duca told me. “A lot of working class people are afraid to organize because they have a few crumbs to lose. [Many] prisoners have nothing to lose and that gives them courage. They have nothing to lose and everything to gain.”
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…
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,…
In this edition of the Folk Labor Desk, JP asks the nerds to raise their hands as he puts a musical twist on our recent…
By Mike Elk Payday Report has learned that New York City based Teamsters Local 805 leader Sandy Pope has agreed to join the slate of…
To preview our monthly Payday Donor Monthly Tele-Townhall, JP talks about his role with Payday Report. He also talks about the role of the journalist in…
“My grandfather was there when the union first started in 1936. My dad has been there for twenty years,” says 20-year-old Honeywell worker Brandon Bullerman. “Then I get there and the company just eliminated 60 years of my family’s progress.”
By Mike Elk EXCITING NEWS: I just signed on as a member of the worker-owned Solidarity Research Center. I can’t tell you how thrilled I…
The only words that describe Railroadmusic.org JP Wright’s talking blues analysis of the Kentucky Primary are the ones JP sings. So enjoy 14 minutes of…
“It is an outrage and a mark on this Administration,” said Gerald Poje, a former member of the federal Chemical Safety Board. “We are asking the Obama Administration to step up and protect the American public in ways that are being mandated to protect the public of Afghanistan”.
During the nearly two years he worked at the Volkswagen plant in Chattanooga, Tenn., Ed Hunter, 43, spent his days bent over, crawling in and out of cars on the assembly line. He believes the posture slowly destroyed his body and led to an accident he suffered in June 2011. “When I got into the car I felt something go,” he says. “I just lost my foot—I couldn’t feel it.”
Welcome to the first unionized digital labor news co-op in the South, founded by former POLITICO Senior Labor Reporter Mike Elk and labor folk musician…