Welcome to “Right-to-Work” America – The North Got Lessons to Learn From South – A Plan to Win
Folks, Greetings from Chattanooga, Tennessee: The Pittsburgh of the South. For the many of us, who live in red states, we just wanna say that Donald…
Nashville Inequality- Johns Hopkins Sued Over Black Lung – NC State Senator Found Guilty of Wage Theft – The Prison Strike Continues
It’s Payday, folks! Greetings from Chattanooga, Tennessee: The Pittsburgh of the South! The Root Opts to Unionize This Payday goes out to the writers at…
Exclusive: Slave-Owner Past of Gardenhire Family Raises Questions in Key Tenn. State Senate Race
“By making race and family heritage a part of the campaign, Senator Gardenhire owes the people of District 10 a full explanation of his family’s slave-trading past,” says Muhammad.
As McConnell Stays Silent, Mine Workers Warn of Pension Catastrophe This Winter
UMWA’s Smith stresses the importance of passing the legislation soon. “Failure to pass this bill this year will put the lives of some 16,000 retired miners, their dependents and widows at immediate risk, as they will lose their health care at the end of December. About 6,500 more will be at risk of losing their health care in 2017.”
JP Prepares for Big Show at Louisville Speed Art Museum
On this episode of Payday Report, JP goes Even Further on the topic of “Just Transition.” He talks about his brainstorm and project with…
Jim Beam Workers Strike in Kentucky – 4,000 GE Workers Vote to Strike – Dreamworks Settles $50 Million Wage Theft Claim – Morgan Fairchild!
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…
JP Sings About Louisville’s Speed Art Museum
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…
Help An Injured Volkswagen Union Activist
By Mike Elk A friend of workers everywhere, Wayne Cliett, a union activist at the Volkswagen plant in Chattanooga, is having medical problems, and needs…
The Emerging Bipartisan Consensus on Disability Employment Reform
“We call it the curb effect,” he says. “Just like the [ramp at the] curb also makes it easier for [pedestrians with] a piece of luggage or a stroller. It ends up helping everyone.”
JP Sings About His 20th Wedding Anniversary & His Son’s 14th Birthday
The toughest part of being Payday’s Senior Labor Reporter is attempting to summarize Payday Folk Labor Ombudsman J.P. Wright’s Folk Labor Desk. I tried for several hours to come up with witty description of JP’s folk labor desk about his son’ Jonah’s 14th birthday and his 20th wedding anniversary to his wife Donna Brown and failed.
Federal Court Calls Out Mercedes in Alabama – CEO Calls Himself Political Prisoner – Tenn Campus Workers Protest Privatization
