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Mike Elk

Mike Elk is the senior labor reporter at Payday Report and member of the Washington-Baltimore NewsGuild. He previously served as senior labor reporter at POLITICO and at In These Times Magazine.

Articles by this author

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Lawmakers Want to Close the Loophole That Pays Disabled Workers Pennies An Hour

Mike Elk · Oct 16, 2016

Millennial Sanders Activists Give New Energy to Southern Organizing

Mike Elk · Jul 29, 2016

The Next Step for Organized Labor? People in Prison.

Mike Elk · Jul 11, 2016

How Sweetheart Deals Hurt Labor

Mike Elk · Feb 18, 2014

After Historic UAW Defeat at Tennessee Volkswagen Plant, Theories Abound

Workers and organizers cite outside interference, management collusion, union missteps, two-tier agreements and Neil Young

Mike Elk · Feb 16, 2014

Obama Administration Stays Quiet as Boeing Strikes Major Blow to Pensions

Mike Elk · Jan 9, 2014

A 98-Year-Old Labor Reporter Who Loved Avant-Garde Music

Mike Elk · Sep 17, 2013

Texas Explosion: Gov’t Shared Info for Anti-Terrorism, But Not Workplace Safety

Mike Elk · Apr 25, 2013

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