Folks, Greetings from Brazil, where President Lula has introduced a bill that would pay all app workers the minimum wage. Lula & Uber Strike Deal on Hourly Wage & Benefits Today in Brasil, Lula announced that he struck a deal on a bill that would give Uber drivers the right

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