The work is intended to build capacity for immigrant rights movements in the future.
Mike Elk
Mike Elk is an Emmy-nominated labor reporter who covered the drug war in Brazil, spent years covering unions in the South for The Guardian, and founded PaydayReport.com with his NLRB settlement from being illegally fired from Politico for union organizing in 2016. He lives in his hometown of Pittsburgh and can be reached at melk@paydayreport.com.
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Posted inEnergy and the Environment
Exxon Refinery Explosion Another By-Product of Trump Deregulation
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Posted inHealth and Social Policy
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