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 ...
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Nov 5, 2024 · Payday's New Editor Was Deported from Pittsburgh. 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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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.
Payday Published 54 Articles & 25 Videos on 2024 Election
Nov 6, 2024 · Watch on. Since June, Payday has written over articles and produced 25 videos on the election. We've covered stories that most publications have ignored like the Boeing strike & how the Harris-Walz campaign has surged among union members in Western PA. (Check out & subscribe to our YouTube page here)
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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.
Payday Published 47 Articles & 12 Videos on 2024 Election
Nov 1, 2024 · There are only a few days left until the election, and living here in Pittsburgh, things have been extremely busy with candidates and surrogates visiting the region multiple times per week. Since June, Payday has written 47 articles and produced 13 videos on the election. We've covered stories that most publications have ignored like the Boeing ...
Payday Tracks Its 1,400th Strike as “Retail Worker Rebellion” Grows
By: Mike Elk July 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 ...
WATCH: Help Payday Cover Unions in the Rust Belt in 2024 Election
Oct 15, 2024 · Venmo. $24,470 raised of $50,000 goal. Payday is in the midst of unprecedented fundraising. We have raised nearly $25,000 in a little over a month. We are seeing this high demand because of the quality of our reporting, so we made this video to celebrate it. If we can raise another $10,000, Illumine Service Foundation has pledged that they will ...
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.
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PITTSBURGH, PA - Earlier today, the Harris-Walz Campaign announced they had knocked on 805,000 doors in Pennsylvania on Saturday alone. This number does not include doors knocked by unions and other independent groups working to elect the Harris-Walz ticket.