JP Talks More about Bluegrass and Blues and Sings the Coal Report
In this hump day edition of the Folk Labor Desk, JP continues a discussion he started in last week’s Lunch Pail about the relationship between blues and…
Labor & DNC – #BlackLivesMatter – SEIU Marching on Confederate Monuments – Louisville Teachers
As some union members protest police violence, others are the subject of the protests. This week, under the #FreedomNow banner, activists staged actions at police unions in New York City; Oakland, CA; Washington, DC; Detroit; Chicago; St. Louis; Chattanooga, TN; Long Beach, CA; and Cleveland.
130 Law360 Journalists Opt to Join NewsGuild as Digital Media Unionization Movement Grows
With workers having already successfully won first contracts at Vice and Gawker, perhaps a second wave of digital media unionization is about to begin at more mainstream media outlets. However, workers at those publications face far steeper odds, as the outlets tend to be owned by corporations that have deeper pockets and are less worried about the backlash of left-leaning readers.
More Perez Vp Talk – Pre-DNC Labor Fight Special – Woody Guthrie’s Birthday – Center for Public Democracy Unionizes
“He is not a showboater, not flash, an everyday guy,” said Michael Steele, the former head of the Republican National Committee. Steele, who was lieutenant governor of Maryland when Perez was on the council, said Perez could help smooth Clinton’s “strained relationship” with many Republicans.
“He is not an I-am-right, you-are-wrong guy,” Steele said.
Exclusive: Organized Labor Increasingly Pushing Perez as VP
“With Joe Biden, we had a messenger boy. With someone like Tom Perez, we would finally have a Vice President, who would know how to get stuff done for labor within the White House,” one top labor official privy to discussions within the AFL-CIO told Payday Report.
How Public Sector Unions Could Help Prison Labor Strikes Spread
“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.”
Inaugural Lunch Pail – DNC Takes Money from Union Busters – Chinese Firecracker Workers – 1,000 Trump Workers Strike
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…
JP Pens a Song about the Freight Train Collision in Texas
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,…
JP Sings about Teamsters, Teachers, and Train Workers
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…
EXCLUSIVE: Pope to Join Zuckerman in Uniting Teamsters Dissidents in Race Against Hoffa
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…
JP Sings About Payday’s Cooperative Vision
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…
Honeywell Locks Out F-35 Workers in Its Push to Pay Less Than $15 an Hour
“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.”