In North Carolina, 20,000 skip school as teachers strike movement swells

By: May 16, 2018

Over at the Guardian, Payday Senior Labor Reporter Mike Elk filed a dispatch for the Guardian from the North Carolina’s one-day teachers’ strike:

As news helicopters hovered overhead and the rain began to pick up, the National Education Association vice-president, Becky Pringle, a 31-year veteran of the classroom, took to the stage.

“You are in the fight of your lives,” Pringle told the crowd. “In the fight of your lives to ensure that your students have the kind of education that inspires their imagination and prepares them to live into their brilliance.”

“So you can’t be shy about your fierceness or your power,” said Pringle. “So North Carolina my question to you today is – what are you prepared to do?”

“Whatever it takes,” shouted back the crowd.

Go to the Guardian to read the full story. 

About the Author

Mike Elk
Mike Elk is an Emmy-nominated labor reporter and alumni of the Guardian. In addition to filing nearly 2,000 stories from 46 states, Elk traveled with Lula from Sáo Bernando do Campos all the way to the Oval Office in the White House. Credited by the Washington Post for being the first reporter to track the strike wave systematically, Elk started Payday Report using his NLRB settlement from being illegally fired for union organizing in 2015. He lives in his hometown of Pittsburgh and works frequently in Rio de Janeiro, where he attended college at PUC-Rio. He speaks both Portuguese and Pittsburghese fluently. His email is [email protected]

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