An April 14 strike date set by two unions representing nearly 68,000 teachers, cafeteria workers, bus drivers and others in L ...

However, organizers of the May Day Strong coalition warn that a one-day strike won’t be enough. The May Day Strike will be an ...

The case of Daphy Michel, who died shortly after she was released from ICE custody far from her home, mirrors the death of ...

​On March 1st, Jaime Martinez, an immigrant rights organizer with Frontline Dignity, began receiving phone calls from ...

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 ...

Since March of 2020, Payday Report has tracked more than 3,000 strikes during the pandemic.

PITTSBURGH, PA. - On Saturday, No Kings protests are expected to draw participants in over 3,000 cities and towns across the United States and overseas. After No Kings, Indivisible, one of the lead ...

RIO DE JANEIRO, BRASIL - Oscar fever is rampant today in Brasil as everyone is talking about whether Kleber Mendonça Filho’s political thriller The Secret Agent will win an Oscar. A victory by Brasil ...

PITTSBURGH, PA - Greetings from the Burgh, where I just got back into town late last night after traveling more than 24 hours back from Brasil. I am gonna take the weekend off to catch up on some ...

On Sunday, Payday discussed how Heinz is now owned by a Brazilian company, JBS. Increasingly, the Brazilian and American economies are being interlinked. Now, more than 4,000 Colorado workers are on ...

PITTSBURGH, PA. - I hope the New York Times investigation on Cesar Chavez expose forces the labor movement to answer deep questions on how solidarity can be perverted to cover up abuses. But as a ...