West Virginia Teachers’ Strike Fever Starting to Spread to Other States
The West Virginia teachers’ strike now entering its second week appears to be inspiring the nation. It looks now like the teachers’ militancy to strike…
Other W.V. Unions May Join Teachers’ Strike – W.V. Senate Refuses to Pass Pay Raise – Students Have Teachers’ Back
Hey y’all, it’s Payday and we gotta get our trusty 2003 Dodge Neon “Judge Hanson” back on the road to West Virginia. Pass the hat…
Rejecting West Virginia Deal, Over 50 Counties Will Continue Wildcat Strike Tomorrow
It appears that the West Virginia teachers’ strike will last indefinitely as rank and file teachers in a majority of counties around the state have…
West Virginia Teachers Win 5% Raise & End Historic Strike
After 4 days of striking, the West Virginia teachers’ union has reached an agreement to end their historic work stoppage. Under the deal, the teachers…
Settling West Virginia Teachers Strike Could Hinge on Taxing Frackers
As the illegal wildcat statewide strike of teachers in 55 counties in West Virginia stretches into its 4th day, West Virginia Governor and billionaire coal…
Exclusive: AFT Prez Weingarten Says She’ll Go To Court to Stop Injunction Against W.V. Teachers Strike
“There is a level of engagement that I haven’t seen before. People are woke,” said American Federation of Teachers President Randi Weingarten when we spoke…
5,000 Teachers Storm WV Capitol – Labor Upset with Lamb in #PA18 – Virginia State House Passes Medicaid Expansion
Greetings from the top of Lydia Street, where Payday Senior Labor Reporter Mike Elk has returned from an inspiring trip to the historic statewide teachers’…
From the West Virginia Teachers’ Picket Line in Wheeling
Payday Senior Labor Reporter Mike Elk traveled to Wheeling, West Virginia, where he filed a dispatch for the Guardian: Despite the state enacting anti-union “right-to-work”…
Help Payday Afford Gas to Cover West Virginia Teachers’ Strike
This Thursday and Friday, thousands of West Virginia Teachers in all 55 counties have voted to go on the first statewide teachers’ strike since 1990….
EXCLUSIVE: SEIU Officials Publicly Smear #MeToo Activists
Payday Report has learned that top SEIU officials have taken to social media to smear women accusing Massachusetts SEIU1199 Executive Director Tyrek D. Lee of…
Atlanta Bus Drivers Strike – 94% of Pittsburgh Teachers Vote to Strike – Maryland Delays Silica Rule
Greetings from the Burgh, where Payday Senior Labor Reporter Mike Elk spent the week hanging out with the Bowzer of Sha Na Na aka Jon…
Warner Brothers Defends the Use of Convict Labor in “Dunkirk” Set Construction Work
“When any worker is under the control of the state—in prison, on probation, etc.—they have little power on the job,” Pulitzer Prize-winning prison historian Heather Ann Thompson told Payday Report. “They can’t demand prevailing wages and safe workplaces. And despite their protestations otherwise, that is exactly why companies hire men and women under correctional control.”