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Payday has shown a proven ability to impact the conversation on labor. Our work covering the strike wave has been praised by The Washington Post, which cited our work tracking strikes in a front-page cover story. The New York Times described us as a publication with “new energy.” PBS American Portrait profiled our work tracking the strike wave, and Esquire described our work as ...
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Chris Townsend is a veteran union organizer who has lived in Virginia for 20 years. He previously served as the UE’s Political action director and the ATU’s Organizing Director.
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Payday has shown a proven ability to impact the conversation on the labor movement. Our work covering the strike wave has been praised by The Washington Post, which cited our work tracking strikes in a front-page cover story. The New York Times described us as a publication with “new energy.” PBS American Portrait profiled our work tracking …
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Jan 18, 2025 · Payday is asking our readers to give us feedback on what you might like to see improve. We are also asking our readers how you might be able to assist in growing the publication as workers and immigrants will face attacks during the second Trump Era. Payday Report has a great opportunity to expand ...
Payday Tracks Its 1,400th Strike as "Retail Worker Rebellion" Grows
Jul 7, 2021 · Payday Report has now recorded its 1,400th strike since we began tracking strikes at the beginning of the pandemic in March of 2020 with the latest strike coming from Topeka, Kansas where over 500 Frito-Lay workers went on strike this Monday.. The strike movement is now picking up momentum as the “Retail Worker Rebellion” grows.
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Yearly archive for 2024. Semafor’s Dave Weigel talks with Mike Elk about how Congresswoman Summer Lee was able to cruise to a landslide victory against AIPAC will other candidates struggles and were defeated by them.
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Apr 15, 2016 · 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 and Railroad Workers United Co-Chair J.P. Wright. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, union membership in the South last year increased...
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5 days ago · Mike Elk is an Emmy-nominated labor reporter. He founded Payday Report using his NLRB settlement from being illegally fired in the union drive at Politico in 2015. Email him at [email protected]
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Folks, Greetings from the Burgh, where I am slowly succumbing to a cold, but I gotta keep working to pay the bills. $175 Raised Towards $435 Health Insurance Fund Good news is that we are making steady progress towards paying for this …
Sources: GM Strike Looks "Very Likely" - UAW Endorsement of …
Sep 8, 2023 · Folks, E ai, gente, Tudo Bem? Greetings from Rio de Janeiro, where Payday is wrapping up the end of a documentary shoot down here. (Big thanks to all who donated). We will be back next week in the US to cover potential strikes at the Big Three automakers. Donate to