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] ...

PITTSBURGH, PA. – The federal monitor of the UAW presidential election, Neil Barofsky, is expected to declare this week that UAW challenger Shawn Fain has defeated incumbent UAW President Ray Curry.

For decades, Ford has had a union neutrality agreement with the UAW. However, now Ford is blocking a union election at its BlueOvalSK battery plant in Kentucky, a joint venture run in conjunction with ...

Greetings from the Burgh, where I stayed up through the night to write a special newsletter. In 2019, Payday Report was there when Biden launched his bid for the Democratic nomination for President at ...

At the beginning of the strike last May, many were nervous that striking could lead to many writers being permanently replaced from their jobs. Some feared that even their fellow union members ...

Folks, Greetings from the Burgh, where I am dealing with some health issues. We will have more stories and reactions to the historic UAW loss coming out early next week, but I’d like to fill in all of ...

Virginia is a key battleground and the growing union movement there can only help the Democratic Party as we head into the November election. Over the past couple of years, the labor movement has ...

In two years since the Writers Guild strike, unions have organized at least 22,000 workers in the entertainment industries ...

In a little less than a month, Payday has raised $10,000 to help cover unions in the Rust Belt, particularly here in the battleground of Western PA, where we are based.

Late yesterday, Black Workers for Justice announced that retired United Electrical Workers (UE) organizer Saladin Muhammad died at the age of 76. In addition to his work with the UE, Saladin was ...

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 ...

Greetings from Rio de Janeiro, where I’m strangely coming down with a cold despite it being above 90 degrees every day. Earlier today, the Teamsters announced they would donate $45,000 to the RNC ...