By Mike Elk Today, several hundred UAW supporters blocked street corners throughout Albany to protest the decision by the federal government to extend an $18.3 million contract to Honeywell to manufacture brakes for the Navy’s F/A-18 at its South Bend, Indiana, facility where 317 workers are currently

By Kris Warner It’s Payday, folks! Greetings from Houston, Texas, where we’re hoping for vegan taco trucks on every corner. Payday Senior Labor Reporter Mike Elk is out sick. This week’s Lunch Pail is dedicated to the workers at the Center for Community Change who joined our

CounterSpin ran a special Labor Day episode on Friday that included a 2012 interview with Payday Report Senior Labor Reporter Mike Elk. The program is produced by Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting and broadcast on over 130 noncommercial radio stations across the nation. Elk discussed how intellectuals and even people

By Mike Elk In November of 1936, South Bend, Indiana’s Honeywell Aerospace plant, then owned by Bendix, was the site of the first sit-down strike by the United Automobile Workers (UAW). The workers were ultimately successful in getting the UAW recognized, and the tactic quickly spread across the US,