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Sixteen Months on Strike at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
https://labornotes.org/2024/02/sixteen-months-strike-pittsburgh-post-gazette
Striking Pittsburgh Post-Gazette worker Natalie Duleba speaks at a rally marking one year on strike last October. She is a member of the Newspaper Guild of Pittsburgh. Photo: Emily Matthews, Pittsburgh Union Progress.
February 19, 2024 / Finley Williams
Bob Batz, Jr., thought it would end quickly.
“It's kind of cute now, that we thought getting into last December [2022] and January was a long time,” Batz said. “Little did we know. [We said] ‘Oh, it’s Christmas and we're still on strike. We can't believe it.’”
Batz is one of 31 Newspaper Guild workers striking the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, owned by the family company Block Communications, Inc.
Journalists at the Post-Gazette have been on strike since October 2022—making this strike the longest of the digital age—along with four other units: mailers, advertising workers, and Teamster truck drivers and pressmen.
FULL story at link above.