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.

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.

2025年2月6日 · PITTSBURGH, PA. - On Monday, February 3rd, "Day Without Immigrants" strikes were held in at least 120 cities, 40 states, and Puerto Rico, according to strike tracking analysis by Payday Report. This analysis was done by Payday Report's Strike Tracker using local news articles found on the internet. While the

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 …

2025年2月5日 · 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

2016年4月15日 · 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...

2023年9月8日 · Folks, E ai, gente, Tudo Bem? Greetings from Rio de Janeiro, where Payday is wrapping up the end of a documentary shoot down here. (Big thanks to all who donated). We will be back next week in the US to cover potential strikes at the Big Three automakers. Donate to

2023年12月31日 · 2023 was the best year in the 7 year history of Payday Report. We published a record 178 articles, raised $118,348, and won a multi-year grant from the Illumine Service Foundation. The year started with me accompanying Lula to the White House to witness a historic meeting between Lula and Biden in the Oval Office. Then it went up from there.

2024年4月24日 · PITTSBURGH, PA. – As a freelance labor reporter, I was always outraged by the poor treatment I received when we covered workers’ rights. When I founded Payday Report back in 2016, I wanted to found a publication that reflected the union democracy and transparency that I grew up with in a UE family in Pittsburgh.