Payday Report - Covering Labor in News Deserts
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.
Trump to Launch Mass Deportation Raids in Chicago on Tuesday
Jan 18, 2025 · As Payday rises to the occasion to fight the draconian moves likely under a second Trump Administration, we need the help of our readers to grow. As Payday went to the press, the Wall Street Journal broke the news that Trump plans to large mass deportation raids in Chicago involving 100-to-200 ICE ...
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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.
Mike Elk - Payday Report
Jan 18, 2025 · 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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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 …
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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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...
Payday Receives $35,000 Matching Grant from Illumine Service...
Nov 20, 2023 · Folks, Payday Report is very excited to announce that we have received a $35,000-a-year matching grant from the Illumine Service Foundation. The grant is in recognition of Payday’s trailblazing coverage of labor and racial justice movements.
After Ten-Year Battle, a Younger Generation Leads the Way at...
Apr 19, 2024 · 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.