Payday Report - Covering Labor in News Deserts
Payday has shown a proven ability to impact the conversation on gun control. 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 ...
Mike Elk - Payday Report
Nov 5, 2024 · 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 melk@paydayreport.com
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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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 …
2024 – Payday Report
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.
Elon Musk Targets Federal Workers Unions - 40,000 Cali Workers …
1 day ago · Folks, Greetings from the Burgh, where Payday is busy tracking an uprising of worker power around the country. Elon Musk Targets Federal Workers Unions Recently, Trump announced that Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy would head up with the Department of Government Efficiency, an informal advisory board that is not an
Boeing Union Contract Reached w/ 43% Wage Increase - Biden …
Oct 31, 2024 · Folks, Greetings from the Burgh, where the race appears to come down to turnout. Donate to help us continue to make videos about the race. Be sure to subscribe to our YouTube page Payday Report. Polls: Pennsylvania Race Tied - Turnout LIkely to Determine the Election In Pennsylvania, the polls
51% of GM Workers Have Voted Against UAW Deal w/ over …
Mike Elk is an Emmy-nominated labor reporter and alumni of the Guardian. In addition to filing nearly 2,000 stories from 46 states, Elk traveled with Lula from Sáo Bernando do Campos all the way to the Oval Office in the White House.
Payday’s 7th Anniversary Southern Labor Reporting Roadtrip
Feb 14, 2023 · Folks, This spring, marks Payday’s 7th anniversary since being founded in Chattanooga, Tennessee while I was living down there in 2016. Since Payday’s founding in 2016, we have filed 971 stories. We’ve reported from 29 different states, filed 26 dispatches from Brazil during the 2022 election...
Welcome to Payday! – Payday Report
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...