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.”
We’re Teaming Up With Solidarity Research Center
By Mike Elk EXCITING NEWS: I just signed on as a member of the worker-owned Solidarity Research Center. I can’t tell you how thrilled I…
JP Talking Blues Analysis of Kentucky Primary
The only words that describe Railroadmusic.org JP Wright’s talking blues analysis of the Kentucky Primary are the ones JP sings. So enjoy 14 minutes of…
Why Won’t the U.S. Adopt the Chemical Safety Rules that Obama Forced on Afghanistan?
“It is an outrage and a mark on this Administration,” said Gerald Poje, a former member of the federal Chemical Safety Board. “We are asking the Obama Administration to step up and protect the American public in ways that are being mandated to protect the public of Afghanistan”.
The Battle for Chattanooga: Southern Masculinity & The Anti-Union Campaign at Volkswagen
During the nearly two years he worked at the Volkswagen plant in Chattanooga, Tenn., Ed Hunter, 43, spent his days bent over, crawling in and out of cars on the assembly line. He believes the posture slowly destroyed his body and led to an accident he suffered in June 2011. “When I got into the car I felt something go,” he says. “I just lost my foot—I couldn’t feel it.”
Welcome to Payday!
Welcome to the first unionized digital labor news co-op in the South, founded by former POLITICO Senior Labor Reporter Mike Elk and labor folk musician…