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 ...

PITTSBURGH, PA - Earlier today, Daniel Moraff’s spokesperson took to the pages of the New York Post (of all places) to blast Payday Report as part of the “political establishment.” Moraff denies ...

Congresswoman Summer Lee barred Platner's strategist Daniel Moraff from her campaign after receiving sexual harassment ...

When a faculty group at the University of Southern California voted overwhelmingly to unionize in June, the university cloaked its decision to appeal the result of the election in the most gentle ...

Greetings from the Burgh, where I am recovering from a respiratory infection, sleeping odd hours while working on developments around Graham Platner, which raise questions about whether corporate ...

Bullying culture, particularly in the online world, is something that the left needs to discuss following the Graham Platner saga.

Platner's campaign guru asked me to lie for him and the incident raises questions about what journalists may have lied!

STRIP DISTRICT, PITTSBURGH, PA. - For nearly 25 years, Mullaney’s Harp & Fiddle Irish Pub, owned by an Irish immigrant, has hosted Brazilian watch parties at this historic bar in Pittsburgh’s Strip ...

Greetings from the Burgh, where Payday just released a multi-media story on the Brazilian community, which has grown 70% in Pittsburgh in the last decade, helping to revitalize the Mon Valley. My $520 ...

CLAIRTON, PA. - A few miles up the road from the US Steel Works on Old Clairton Road sits an old Mormon church nestled among a large yard and trees. The Mormon church looks like many churches in the ...

PITTSBURGH, PA. - Earlier today, Pittsburgh Pirates pitcher Paul Skenes, the 2025 Cy Young Award winner, served hot dogs at a Sheetz convenience store (Sheetz, which has 830 locations nationwide, is ...