WV Teachers to Vote on Strike – Lamb Talks Dream Act in #PA18 – Baseball Player Labor Dispute Heats up
WV Teachers Vote to Strike – Lamb Talks Dream Act in #PA18 – Baseball Player Labor Dispute Heats up Greetings from the Burgh, where Payday…
Nashville Mayor in Trouble – WV Teachers Begin Rolling Strike – NPR Calls Out Lamb Campaign in #PA18
It’s Payday, folks! Greetings from da Burgh where Payday Senior Labor Reporter Mike Elk has been laid up in bed making calls to Payday General…
Donate – Payday’s Mike Elk Gets Strep Throat – Help Him Pay His Bills
At the end of the month, Payday Senior Labor Reporter Mike Elk is $1,000 behind where he would have been without getting sick. He’s flat broke, $200 short on the rent, and still recovering from a serious illness.
Post-Gazette Byline Strike Will Determine #PA18 Race & Immigration Coverage – 84% White Newsrooms Playing Into DACA Defeat – W.V. Teachers Strike
This week’s Payday goes out to our 150 reporters at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, members of the Pittsburgh NewsGuild, who are currently engaged in a byline strike. The union has also filed unfair labor practices charges with the National Labor Relations Board claiming that the Post-Gazette’s owner, Toledo-based Block Communications, has unilaterally imposed health care costs on the union outside of the scope of collective bargaining.
Will Dunkirk’s Use of Prison Labor in Set Construction Disqualify It from the Oscars?
“As far as whether it should disqualify the film from getting an Oscar, I think it should,” he said. “No one would reward the costume designers who used child slave labor in making the costumes for a movie.”
BREAKING: LA Times Votes to Unionize – Dems Outraise GOP 2 to 1 in #PA18 – Trump NLRB Drops Honeywell Charges
Greeting from the cliffs overlooking the Monongahela River, where workers are pushing against the anti-union agenda of Rick Saccone in a dogfight against “right-to-work” in…
Payday Denied Press Credentials for Trump Rally for #PA18 Special Election Today
“Not only is Rick Saccone the first Republican to ever refuse to fill out the AFL-CIO’s endorsement questionnaire in the 18th Congressional District, but now he is refusing to allow labor reporters into his events because I think he’s scared of getting questions about his anti-union and anti-immigrant record,” Elk added.
Conor Lamb Plans to Make Unions A Central Focus of His Campaign in #PA18 Special Election
“In Western Pennsylvania, it’s no surprise that we put a statue to one of our great labor leaders right there in the churchyard for everyone to see forever,” said Lamb. “It helps us remember who to say thank you to, and it helps remember that service is the rent we pay for living.”
South Carolina Hospital Accused of Tarnishing the Legacy of Coretta Scott King
Payday Senior Labor Reporter Mike Elk filed a dispatch for the Guardian examining how little has changed since the 1969 Charleston Nurses Strike: Workers at…
Waving a Pirates Hat, Conor Lamb Rallies Unprecedented Westmoreland Crowd Against Chicago Cubs Owner Joe Ricketts’ TV Buy in #PA18
A win for Democrats in the district could give Westmoreland County Democrats the boost of confidence they need to take their rebuilding efforts even further.
Happy Hour w/ WaPo’s Dave Weigel & HuffPost’s Daniel Marans at Church Brew Works Friday January 12th #PA18
Join us this Friday January 12th at the Church Brew Works for our first monthly Payday Happy Hour hosted by Payday Report.
Ricketts Drops $1 Million on #PA18 – Nissan Union Leader to Run for Office – Doug Jones Appoints Senate Democrats’ Only African American Chief of Staff
On Thursday, the Ending Spending Super Pac backed by billionaire Chicago Cubs owners Joe Ricketts, who fired 115 reporters at Gothamist and DNAInfo after they unionized in November, announced a $1 million ad buy in the #Pa18 Special Election.