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 ...

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.

4 days ago · Folks, Greetings from the Burgh, where like many, we are shocked at the disarray from changes by the Trump Administration, but there are signs that workers are fighting back. Border Czar Bemoans Activists Being Educated About Their Rights Trump’s Border Czar Tom Homan went on CNN today and bemoaned

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 …

Dec 16, 2024 · Payday Report is an Emmy-nominated labor and racial justice media outlet that has proven to change activists' thinking about labor and immigrants rights organizing.. Given the need to train activists to defend immigrants against Trump, Payday intends to focus on getting the labor and social justice movements to have serious …

Dec 25, 2024 · Folks, It’s the holidays, but for self-employed labor reporters like myself, there are no paid holidays. Often, when I take time off, I lost money, but no time is more important than now to rest up and prepare for the massive fight ahead when Trump is inaugurated on January 20th.

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.

Jan 22, 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 melk@paydayreport.com

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 …

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...