# Payday Report Payday Report is a leading independent labor outlet lead by Emmy-nominated reporter Mike Elk Page: Feed: --- ## [Boeing Union Recommends Voting Down Contract -- Target Field Workers Not Happy with $20-an-Hour Minimum Wage](https://paydayreport.com/boeing-union-recommends-voting-down-contract-target-field-workers-not-happy-with-20-an-hour-minimum-wage/) _2026-08-19 · Mike Elk_ Boeing workers are upset over performance-based pay raises ## [Socialist Florida SEIU Organizer Wins Senate Primary Upset - Maine Shipworkers Blast Trump Outsourcing - Meatpacking Strikes Heat Up](https://paydayreport.com/socialist-florida-seiu-organizer-wins-senate-primary-upset-maine-shipworkers-blast-trump-outsourcing-meatpacking-strikes-heat-up/) _2026-08-19 · Mike Elk_ Socialist Florida SEIU organizer wins upset in Senate primary ## [Reader Donates $13,000 to Payday - ⅔ of Lost Grant Replaced](https://paydayreport.com/reader-donates-13-000-to-payday-2-3-of-lost-grant-replaced/) _2026-08-14 · Mike Elk_ Trump cuts lead to us losing a grant, but workers kept us alive. ## ["Beyond Steel" Raises Questions about Pittsburgh's Past and Future](https://paydayreport.com/beyond-steel-raises-questions-about-pittsburghs-past-and-future/) _2026-08-12 · PayDay Staff_ University of Pittsburgh regional economist Christopher Briem’s new book, Beyond Steel, is an essential text for understanding the confusing identity of Pittsburgh in the 21st century. ## [Fain Aide Removed Over Death Threat Against UAW Prez Candidate - Argentine Ports Shut Down](https://paydayreport.com/fain-aide-removed-over-death-threat-against-uaw-prez-candidate-argentine-ports-shut-down/) _2026-08-06 · Mike Elk_ Fain refused to take action to investigate the aide! ## [UAW Secretary-Treasurer Margaret Mock Talks Being Erased from UAW Scandal Coverage](https://paydayreport.com/uaw-secretary-treasurer-margaret-mock-talks-being-erased-from-uaw-scandal-coverage/) _2026-08-06 · Mike Elk_ Left publications have ignored Mock, the first Black woman ever elected as a national officer of the UAW. ## [Lula to Trump: ‘No one will defeat us through lies’](https://paydayreport.com/lula-to-trump-no-one-will-defeat-us-through-lies/) _2026-07-29 · PayDay Staff_ With the Trump Admin interfering in the Brazilian presidential election this fall, Lula says that Brasil will not be intimidated. ## [Trump Cuts Quietly Gutted a Health Plan and Retirement Watchdog](https://paydayreport.com/trump-cuts-quietly-gutted-a-health-plan-and-retirement-watchdog/) _2026-07-29 · PayDay Staff_ The following story by Kalena Thomhave is from our friends at Capital & Main. It can be difficult to keep track of the casualties of the second Trump administration’s war on the federal bureaucracy and the thousands of federal government layoffs set in motion by Elon Musk& ## [Wikipedia Working w/ Trump NLRB to Union Bust -- 10,000 Doctors Launch Union Drive --Martha Vineyard's Bus Drivers to Strike](https://paydayreport.com/wikipedia-working-w-trump-nlrb-to-union-bust-10-000-doctors-launch-union-drive-martha-vineyards-bus-drivers-to-strike/) _2026-07-28 · Mike Elk_ In today's newsletter, Wikipedia union busting, 10,000 doctors unionizing, and Martha Vineyard Bus Drivers vote to strike. ## [One platform, from silicon to agent (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/toAI1R64aP91) _2026-07-28 · **Sponsored**_ Serverless inference plus Inference Router to optimize cost and latency at scale. ## [UPDATE: Summer Lee's Former Campaign Manager Confirms Moraff Dismissed Over Sexual Misconduct](https://paydayreport.com/update-summer-lees-former-campaign-manager-confirms-moraff-dismissed-over-sexual-misconduct/) _2026-07-28 · Mike Elk_ After being smeared in the press, Congresswoman Summer Lee's former campaign manager confirms our reporting.