Sep 13, 2024
By Mike Elk
For more than 15 years, I have covered Randi Weingarten, the president of the 1.7 million member American Federation of Teachers union, but I have never seen her as excited as when she got the news that Minnesota Governor Tim Walz, a social studies teachers and AFT member, had been selected as...
Sep 4, 2024
“This project is every historian’s dream,” said Goldscheider. “I stumbled onto a cache of union meeting records and newspaper clippings from the...
Jul 19, 2024
Semafor’s Dave Weigel talks with Mike Elk about how Congresswoman Summer Lee was able to cruise to a landslide victory against AIPAC will other candidates struggles and were defeated by them.
Jun 11, 2024
Chris Townsend is a veteran union organizer who has lived in
Virginia for 20 years. He previously served as the UE's Political
action director and the ATU's Organizing Director.
Over the past five years, he has seen an upsurge in organizing in
Northern Virginia.
"I was the organizing director for the Amalgamated...
Jun 8, 2024