Last night, Payday raised over $900 that we need to travel to Canton, Mississippi (Donate here).
As we were raising funds and getting ready to leave from Goshen, Kentucky, we got a phone call from Mississippi NAACP Organizer Frank Figgers, Co-Chair of the Mississippi Alliance for Fairness at Nissan.
Figgers talked to us about the effects that are anti-union TV ads that Nissan is running are having on the union election.
“I also think and have confidence in that workers are much more clever than that” says Figgers. “They have been experiencing all these things for a number of years”.
Mike Elk is an Emmy-nominated labor reporter and alumni of the Guardian. A native of Pittsburgh, Elk grew up in a UE union family. Elk was the only American reporter in the room with Lula on the morning of the election & traveled with him to the Oval Office. Credited by the Washington Post for being the first reporter to track the strike wave systematically, Elk started Payday Report using his NLRB settlement from being illegally fired for union organizing in 2015. He lives in his hometown of Pittsburgh and attended journalism school at PUC-Rio de Janeiro. He speaks both Portuguese and Pittsburgh fluently. His email is [email protected]
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