Payday Report is an Emmy-nominated labor outlet founded by Mike Elk, an alumni of the Guardian. Our work as the first outlet to systematically track the strike wave during the pandemic has been widely recognized by everyone from Washington Post to NPR’s “All Things Considered” to filmmaker Boots Riley.
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Veteran UE Organizer Chris Townsend Talks Organizing Surge in Northern Virginia
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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. Over the past five years, he has seen an upsurge in organizing in Northern Virginia. "I was the organizing director for the Amalgamated Transit Union and in a period of sev…
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27,000 Virginia Teachers Voting to Unionize
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In Virginia, this week, over 27,000 teachers and school staff are expected to vote on unionizing. If they win, it will be the largest union victory in decades. The organizing drives comes after Virginia granted collective bargaining rights to public employees in 2020. Virginia now has become one of the fastest-growing states for unions in the count…
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With 70% UAW Sign Up, 25-Year Mercedes UAW Veteran Talks
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With 70% UAW Sign Up, 25-Year Mercedes UAW Veteran Talks By Mike Elk Eleven years ago, I first met Kirk Garner, Vice President of UAW Local 149, the minority union at Mercedes in Vance, Alabama. After the UAW was narrowly defeated in a union drive in 2014, it formed minority unions at Volkswagen in Chattanooga, Tennessee and Mercedes in Vance, Alab…
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Mercedes Union Leader in Alabama Predicts Landslide Victory
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Since the late 1990s, UAW Local 149 Vice President Kirk Garner has been involved in efforts to unionize at Mercedes in Vance, Alabama. Now, after the 73% victory at Volkswagen in April, the union says that it is cruising to victory. “It feels really good. And it's finally coming to fruition. And we're excited, everybody's excited, ready to vote,” s…
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After 10 Year Battle, a Younger Generation Leads the Way at Volkswagen
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A formerly anti-union Volkswagen worker explains why he now supports the union at Volkswagen.
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After 25 Years, Mercedes Workers Say Union Could Come "Any Day Now"
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For nearly 25 years Mercedes workers in Vance have tried to unionize, but have never gotten so close. Early last month workers at Mercedes reached 50% for the first time in plant history. “I came in ‘98. And they had a campaign going on, and were gaining momentum. And they just couldn't reach that 50% mark,” says Kirk Garner, one of the leaders of …
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Koch Industries Using “Texas Two-Step” to Prevent Asbestos Victims from Going to Court
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This week, as part of our podcast, Payday Report spoke to Lori Knapp and her lawyer, Jon Ruschdeki, who have been involved in a 6-year lawsuit against Koch Industries-owned Georgia Pacific but have yet to see their day in court. The lawsuit stems from her father Ed Chapman's death in 2020 from mesothelioma. Her father contracted the disease as a co…
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Mike Elk & Richard Eskow on Journalism & Solidarity
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Writers Guild Strike update w/ Daley Haggar
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On Tuesday, 11,000 TV & film writers went on the first strike in Hollywood in a generation. Daley Haggar, who was a writer for the Big Bang Theory and has been a member of the Writers Guild for nearly 20 years, joins us to discuss what's at stake as writers see diminishing paychecks with the switch to streaming.…
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East Palestine Rail Disaster Update w/ John Russell
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Most of the mainstream media has abandoned the workers suffering from the fallout of the East Palestine chemical train derailment. However, the Holler's John Russel, a native of Columbiana County, where the accident occurred has remained on the story. Russell talks with Payday about what both mainstream and left media got wrong about the derailment…
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On this week's Payday Report, we talk about over 9,000 Hollywood writers that are going on strike next week for the first since 2007. We also discuss the largest federal workers strike in Canada in over a decade. We also discuss the legacy of Harry Belafonte.
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