A Great, New, And Necessary Union Resource From Strikers In Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

The Pittsburgh Union Progress is published by people who have been on strike from the Pittsburgh (Pennsylvania) Post-Gazette since October 2022. They are demanding that the Post-Gazette provide affordable health care and follow labor law. They will love it if you can subscribe to their publication (it's free) and donate to their strike fund.

You can read more about the strikers and their on-going strike here. 

This is an excellent publication. Yes, there is a great deal of local and regional news that may not interest everyone who reads our blog, but right off the bat I was taken by an article about an eagle that has been nesting in an abandoned steel works, an article about a company that is trying to create a factory culture that is safe and inclusive for people with autism and other special needs, an especially important article on rail safety, and a thoughtful article on how regional union political action is affected by Teamsters President Sean O’Brien's recent address the Republican National Convention. These kinds of articles touch the lives of people everywhere and are also the kinds of articles that should inform our union activism. This is democratic and participatory journalism done as journalism should be done. I wish that our Mid-Willamette Vally Labor Solidarity Alerts could reach the high bar being set by The Pittsburgh Union Progress. 

Striking workers of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette and supporters hold signs and listen

to a speaker during a rally, organized by the Newspaper Guild of Pittsburgh, in front

of the headquarters of C-SPAN in Washington, D.C., to demand that the company

removes Allan Block, chairman and CEO of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, from its board 

of directors, Wednesday, March 8, 2023. (Alexandra Wimley/Union Progress)