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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Boeing Targets Union with Legal Probes in ‘Wisconsin of Manufacturing’ Fight

The Good News in Wisconsin That the Media Isn’t Covering

Inspired by Wisconsin, Union Sees Record Turnout in Rally Against GE

White House Workers Given Right to Unionize. Why Not DOJ Employees as Well?

Why Does the Chicago Teachers Union Care About Interest Rate Swaps?

‘Guest Worker’ Trafficking: Can the Feds Really Deal With the Problem?

Utility Union Charges National Power Company With Illegal Employee Gag Rules

As GE Opens Nonunion Facility in Texas, Union Leader Sees Subtle Threat

GOP Continues to Interfere With National Labor Relations Board

Locked-Out Honeywell Workers Travel Far and Wide to Fight Company

Did Boeing’s Meet the Press Sponsorship Allow Gingrich to Lie About Company’s NLRB Case?

Congressman: Another Mine Disaster Needed to Pass Safety Legislation

Obama Has Power to Stop Unionbusting With a Stroke of His Pen

Richard Trumka: Talking Loud and Saying Nothing

Republicans Threaten To Defund the National Labor Relations Board

Alleging Election Irregularities, Reform-Minded UC Grad Students Occupy Union Office

Will Progressives Get Behind Workers Fighting to Stop Concessions at GE?

Why Is Earth Day So Much More Popular Than Workers Memorial Day?

Massachusetts Dems Pass Bill to ‘Eliminate Collective Bargaining as We Know It’

Chinese Media Ignores Wildcat Truck Drivers Strike in Shanghai

NLRB Finds Boeing Broke Law—and Upsets Anti-Union Southerners

Study: Increasing Wages at Wal-Mart Would Barely Affect Shoppers

NLRB Initiative Helps Crack Down on Unionbusting, Illegal Firings

Unlikely Alliance Stopped Federal Rollback of Construction Wage, Worksite Protections

GOP NLRB Cuts Would Lead to Backlog of 18,000 Cases

Congress Holds Unprecedented Hearing into USPS-Union Agreement

Strange Bedfellows: Wis. AFL-CIO Holds Rally With Planned Parenthood

Why Stephen Lerner’s Bold Bank Campaign Idea Is Necessary

Radiation in the Homeland: Honeywell’s Guilty Plea Shows Importance of Unions

New Competition for Teamsters, as Obama Allows Mexican Truckers into U.S.

After Wisconsin and Labor’s ‘Civil Wars’: Will Unions Insist on Loyalty Pledges?

Is the Labor Department Dragging Its Feet on Promising Anti-Wage Theft Measure?

Shades of Wisconsin, as 400 Protesters Shut Down Bank Office, Invade Sen. McConnell’s Office

Is OSHA Dropping Workplace Safety Rules to Stave Off GOP Budget Cuts?

Locked-Out Honeywell Workers Join Wisc. Struggle, Inaugurate Company-Wide Union Council

Why Should Firms That Spied on Unions Keep Government Contracts?

Labor Leaders Say Wisconsin Signals ‘New Era of Labor Militancy’

Irrational Exuberance: The Trouble With Hysteria Over Public Pension Shortfalls

Employers May Soon Lose Unionbusting Reporting Loophole

New Labor Split? Trumka Refuses to Denounce Obama Chamber of Commerce Speech

Pleasing Big Business, Obama Admin Blocks Two Workplace Safety Regulations

Forget Media Consultants—Labor Should Use Guerrilla Journalism to Counter Corporate Attacks

Why Do Most Media Ignore Workers’ Struggles?

Oops: Drafting Error Imperils Trade Adjustment Program for Laid-Off Workers

Richard Trumka Should Take a Page from MLK on Jobs Crisis

Does the National Labor Relations Board Even Matter?

‘Class War’ Between Private and Public Sector Unions?

Do the New NLRB Rules Really Help Workers Organize?

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