Mike Elk - In These Times

Mike Elk wrote for In These Times and its labor blog, Working In These Times, from 2010 to 2014. He is currently a labor reporter at Politico.

Mike Elk is a Pittsburgh native and labor journalist whose investigative work has been cited on the front page of the New York Times and debated by Whoopi Goldberg and Barbara Walters on ABC’s The View. Elk won a Sidney Award for his coverage of how corporations crafted legislation to exempt prison labor from U.S. minimum wage laws. A frequent guest on MSNBC and Democracy Now!, Elk has also written for the New York Times, the Washington Post, Reuters and The Nation.

He lives in Washington, D.C. but is often on the road. From the Wisconsin State Capitol to the clubhouses of Major League Baseball to the fried chicken joints of Chattanooga, Tenn., Elk has been there to get the inside scoop.

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Consumers, Workers Upset Over New Verizon Deal

Bain Capital Busted Unions; Canada Reopens Asbestos Mine; New York Union Tosses Prez

Blame Flies Over Police Massacre of 34 South African Miners

Paul Ryan Closely Tied To Corrupt Union Accused of Violently Threatening Dissidents (Updated)

Boss Shoots Worker For Demanding Back Pay, Brazilian Metalworkers Win & Pilots Dump Union Prez

As Some AT&T Unions Strike, Others “Scab”

NASA Firefighters Protest Steep Cuts (Updated)

Andy Stern Responds to Critics of His Post-SEIU Career

Another Utility Union Claims Understaffing Causes Longer Power Outages

NYC Mayor Calls For Police Strikes, Detained Immigrant Prison Labor & Garbage Strike in Seattle

After Defeat, CWA Wins Another Cablevision Election

Pressure Already Building on Obama for Second-Term OSHA Reform

Union To Picket Obama Fundraiser Over Trans-Pacific Partnership Trade Deal

Wage Theft Gets Jail Time In NY, NV Union May Sit Out Election, Detroit Cuts Pay by 10%

Honeywell Shutters Uranium Plant, Lays Off More Than 200 Workers

Casino Workers Target Marine Corps and UFC in Unionization Battle

Laid Off Steelworker in Anti-Romney Ad Says He Is Not Voting for Obama

Black Lung Returns, Female Congressional Staffers Paid Less, Chicago Public Schools Lie

AFL-CIO Insists Philadelphia Rally Will Not Be a Shadow Convention

Husky Energy Workers Strike Not Over Money, But Right to Swap Shifts

OSHA Declines to Issue Rule Protecting Workers From Heat

Is Union Busting to Blame for Power Outages in D.C.?

Department of Labor To Investigate Union Busting on Army Base Following ITT Report

Con Ed Locks Out 8,500 Workers As Summer Heat Wave Hits

Department of Energy Drops Language to Protect Collective Bargaining Agreements

Supreme Court Increases Regulation on Unions

Are Senate Democrats to Blame for Blocking Union Election for 10,000 American Airline Workers?

Veterans Forced to Attend Anti-Union Meetings on Army Base

Farm Workers Go On Strike, 21 Casino Workers Suspended, 98 Year Old To Run Against Trumka

Saunders Wins AFSCME Presidential Election, But Big Questions Remain

Nuclear Power Workers Vote Down Contract As Safety Questions Mount

AFSCME Searches For New Leader In Heated Election

AFSCME delegates vote Thursday in the union's most heated election in 30 years.

Organizing Wildfire and Wildcat Strikes Spread Among Cablevision Workers

Labor News Round-Up: Wal-Mart PR Firm Has Fake Reporter Spy on Workers, and More

Senate Democrats Block Funding for Guest Worker Protection Rule

Judge Blocks American Airlines Union Election

Scabs Brought in To Run Nuclear Power Plant During Lockout in Mass.

Fracking Fatalities: Organized Labor Implores Federal Agencies to Stop the Killings

Labor News Round-Up: Guest Workers Strike, NYC Construction Unions Fund Public Union Attacks

American Airlines Stonewalling Union Election for 10,000 workers

Unions, Allies Call on Transit Agency to Renegotiate Bank Deals

Tax Credits for New Jobs, but Really for Union Busting?

Microphone Grabbed Out of Hands of Reporter Questioning Honeywell CEO

End of a Scandal? NLRB Member Terence Flynn Resigns; Prosecution Still Possible

Labor News Round-Up: Obama Campaign Boasts About Bashing Teachers Unions, Cell Tower Climber Deaths

Sneak Attack on Teachers’ Collective Bargaining Rights in Pennsylvania

Railroad Workers Convene to Shake Up Unions

At Paris Hospital, Workers Skeptical of New Socialist President

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