Follow along as the @pghguild.com strike paper's @johnnysantapup.bsky.social covers college 🏈 and Brad and Steve work all day this championship Saturday @acrisurestadium.bsky.social. Meanwhile here are the PIAA playoffs results, and the Mon Incline is open for Light Up Night: www.unionprogress.com

Monday morning at the @pghguild.com strike paper: @johnnysantapup.bsky.social lays out the district @ncaafb.bsky.social playoff picture and Ed Blazina reports on Pittsburgh Regional Transit's annual service report: Missed trips are down, but on-time performance is an issue: www.unionprogress.com

FOOTBALL! Saturday's @pghguild.com strike paper has what happened Friday night and what's happening today, which our Steve, Brad and @johnnysantapup.bsky.social will have tonight. Follow? Plus news on the Mon Incline closure and @attacktheatre.bsky.social going "Game On." www.unionprogress.com

The @pghguild.com sports guys are taping up for a long weekend of football, including Saturday college championships and playoff pushes. @johnnysantapup.bsky.social reports. Helen Fallon previews America Recycles Day. And Ed Blazina says PGH Transit debuts ReadyFare cards soon: www.unionprogress.com

BREAKING: We won! Today the 3rd Circuit Court ordered the @post-gazette.com to restore our contract it illegally tore up 5 years ago. That’s our health care, PTO, right to a 40-hr. work week, short-term disability and so much more we’ve struck for 3+ years. pghguild.com/2025/11/10/p...

Two big stories in the @pghguild.com Sunday strike paper: @johnnysantapup.bsky.social covers all the W. PA college football, and Ed Blazina reports on @pittsburghwater.bsky.social's massive upgrade -- "a monumental moment" to ensure "clean drinking water for our babies": www.unionprogress.com

It's the 🏈 playoff semis tonight and our starting lineup is set: Steve Rotstein at Class 6A/4A, Brad Everett at 5A/3A and @johnnysantapup.bsky.social at 2A/1A. Pregame with previews in the @pghguild.com strike paper, which also looks at weekend roadwork and South Park recycling: unionprogress.com

The Thursday @pghguild.com strike paper previews Friday night's WPIAL Class 6A/4A high school football semifinal games, as well as Saturday's opening at the August Wilson African American Cultural Center of "Picture This," celebrating the value of intergenerational friendships: www.unionprogress.com

The @pghguild.com Sunday strike paper has @johnnysantapup.bsky.social's big district college football roundup; a Mon Incline glitch, rescue and shutdown; Allegheny Land Trust protecting more green space; and a PGH Media Partnership story on the need for more foster parents: www.unionprogress.com

Sunday PUP has @johnnysantapup.bsky.social's district college football roundup, Steve Rotstein at the City League championship, the final rankings of the regular season, a story by Ed Blazina on bulk transit passes, and a story about Ed Blazina, three years into the strike: www.unionprogress.com

The @pghguild.com Sunday strike paper features @johnnysantapup.bsky.social's big college football roundup, @stevemellon412.bsky.social on No Kings, Andrew Goldstein on new farm grower-worker co-op Zeromile, and Ed Blazina on PGH Regional Transit's farebox contract challenge: www.unionprogress.com

What happened on the football fields of Western Pennsylvania on Friday night? Here's @johnnysantapup.bsky.social, Steve Rotstein and Emily Matthews in the @pghguild.com Saturday strike paper: www.unionprogress.com

The @pghguild.com Sunday strike paper is topped by @johnnysantapup.bsky.social's college football roundup, Ed Blazina's report on a ground-leaving new venture to train future aviation workers, and Karen Carlin with a preview of "Off the Record XXV": www.unionprogress.com

Just a week and half short of the third anniversary of our unfair labor practice strike against @post-gazette.com, Allegheny County Council member at-large @bethanyhallam.bsky.social brought forward a proclamation acknowledging the fight of the union journalists holding down the picket line.

In the @pghguild.com Sunday "paper," @johnnysantapup.bsky.social covers all the college football; Ed Blazina reports that it takes money for PGH Transit to, well, take money; and the PMP Newsroom's Erin Yudt covers "giant generational wealth being lost daily” to smarter scams: www.unionprogress.com

The @pghguild.com's Ed Blazina starts out another week with a beyond-the-noise report on the PGH Regional Transit bus stops situation at The Waterfront, on which parties still are working to solve. He's also got his weekly heads-up on regional roadwork, including on Route 28: www.unionprogress.com

All the Western Pennsylvania college football: The @pghguild.com's @johnnysantapup.bsky.social spent Saturday covering California of PA, Slippery Rock, Washington & Jefferson, Grove City, Seton Hill, Indiana of PA, Duquesne, Waynesburg, Thiel, Pitt and more: : www.unionprogress.com/2025/09/27/d...

With grit and heart, coming off big injuries, the @pghguild.com sports team of Steve, Brad, Emily and @johnnysantapup.bsky.social covered Friday night right. 🏈scores, stars, sights and sounds are in today's PUP, with Ed Blazina on PGH Transit's plans and roadwork to avoid: www.unionprogress.com

The Sunday @pghguild.com strike paper leads with @johnnysantapup.bsky.social's comprehensive coverage of regional college football. Ed Blazina adds stories on using data to improve roads and driving habits, and on an awkward transit gap at the new @pitairport.bsky.social: www.unionprogress.com

The @pghguild.com's @johnnysantapup.bsky.social covers ALL the regional college football; Helen Fallon lays out Love Your Library; Joe Knupsky shows how @newsguild.org solidarity is a verb for which Pittsburgh journalists are most grateful. It's all in the Sunday strike paper: www.unionprogress.com

One of PUP's 2-way (✍️ and 📷) players @johnnysantapup.bsky.social covers the hell out of regional college football; Brad Everett does Saturday's high school games; Ed Blazina reports a temporary fix to the state transit crisis; Helen Fallon features @412foodrescue.bsky.social. www.unionprogress.com

The @pghguild.com newsroom is buzzin' around the coffee pot, but sports is silent. They're working football tonight. @johnnysantapup.bsky.social filed his NCAA Div. III preview, though, and Ed Blazina has your weekend roadwork plus an airy feature on the historic Liberty Tubes: www.unionprogress.com

What happened in football Friday night? Here's the @pghguild.com strike paper's Emily Matthews, Steve Rotstein, Brad Everett and @johnnysantapup.bsky.social with the games, scoreboard, stars, sights and sounds, plus PUP Bites: unionprogress.com

Happy Labor Day. Today, we marked 1,049 days on strike against @post-gazette.com management who have been running the most lawless union-busting campaign in America. The longest active strikers in the country marched in Pittsburgh's Labor Day parade wearing our new Union Progress newshound shirts.

The @pghguild.com strike paper's sports team -- @johnnysantapup.bsky.social, @jenku.bsky.social, Steve, Brad, Rob, Tyler, Emily -- is BRINGING the high school football preseason coverage, as Coach Rick Davis explains, while Helen Fallon features Age-Friendly Greater Pittsburgh: www.unionprogress.com

Seconds after this was posted, Noah filed a reverse fun-ism lawsuit. www.constangy.com/sharpen-your...

The trades are whatever, but the Pirates are currently two players short on their active roster today with more trades certainly coming. If they aren’t paying 26 active players during their off day tomorrow, MLBPA should file another grievance against these cheapskate bastards.

John Mooney is a West Mifflin kid who was just drafted by the Canadiens de Montreal. Our @johnnysantapup.bsky.social can say he talked to him way before that: www.unionprogress.com/2023/04/20/f...

My colleague and comrade @stevemellon412.bsky.social has a write-up on @kimkelly.bsky.social's talk at the Mt. Lebanon Public Library last night! Thanks so much to Kim for letting @johnnysantapup.bsky.social talk about the @pghguild.com beforehand. www.unionprogress.com/2025/06/24/f...

This afternoon, @nlrbgov.bsky.social requested that the U.S. 3rd Circuit Court hold @post-gazette.com in contempt for refusing to restore the health insurance plan that the court ordered be restored in March.

In your Thursday @pghguild.com strike paper, read about the big Transit for All rally, the @westvirginiau.bsky.social pitcher with a chip on his shoulder (by @johnnysantapup.bsky.social), and @stevemellon412.bsky.social being recognized by the Pittsburgh Black Media Federation: www.unionprogress.com

A brag about the @pghguild.com strike paper wins at the Golden Quills -- three plus a best-of-show for @stevemellon412.bsky.social and one for Ed Blazina, plus finalists Ed, Helen Fallon (2), @johnnysantapup.bsky.social, Brad Everett, and @thathakas.bsky.social: www.unionprogress.com/2025/05/28/p...

Deep into the playoffs: The @pghguild.com strike paper's Emily Matthews, Steve Rotstein and Brad Everett cover high school softball and baseball. @johnnysantapup.bsky.social previews Seton Hill v. ‪@eaststroudsburgu.bsky.social with a trip to the College World Series on the line: unionprogress.com

Monday and our team is covering the softball and baseball playoffs. @johnnysantapup.bsky.social has a James Madison University softball player profile; Brad Everett profiles a Shaler catcher. Ed Blazina writes about red bus lanes Downtown, the Manchester Esplanade and roadwork: www.unionprogress.com

The wet weather caused the WPIAL to cancel Tuesday's high school softball and baseball games, but as @johnnysantapup.bsky.social reports, things are sunny with Robert Morris University softball, which opens NCAA tournament play in the Tallahassee Regional Friday www.unionprogress.com/2025/05/14/m...

BIG news: Today the federal judges who granted us an injunction last month ordering the @post-gazette.com to restore our illegally-taken health care DENIED the company’s desperate attempts to rehear the case, delay justice and cut its *current* workers out of the plan we’ve won back.

PUP's @stevemellon412.bsky.social, Helen Fallon and @johnnysantapup.bsky.social cover Workers Memorial Day, the name-the-still-mill-eaglet contest and @pointparku.bsky.social Baseball "just having fun really." Ed Blazina is covering today's transit hearings and riders' rally: www.unionprogress.com

In today's @pghguild.com strike paper, locally made pro golfer Neil Shipley looks forward to playing at home, while high school basketball standout Mimi Thiero considers all the places she can go. Stories by @johnnysantapup.bsky.social and Brad Everett with Emily Matthews: www.unionprogress.com

I'm so disappointed weekly by all the people crossing our picket line. That doesn't go away just because we're all tired of it. Here are the employees abetting the PG in breaking federal labor law, just as they were when we went on strike 2.5+ years ago: pghguild.com/pittsburgh-p...

The @pghguild.com Sunday strike paper leads with @johnnysantapup.bsky.social's profile of CMU coach legend Tony Wingen, Ed Blazina on @senatorcosta.com costa.com exploring a regional transit agency and on a medical drone system, and Helen Fallon on Vanka mural funding woes: www.unionprogress.com

As its interim editor, I'm disappointed that the @pghguild.com strike "paper" doesn't cover enough hockey -- oh, hey. Thanks, @johnnysantapup.bsky.social! Penn State men and some Western PA players are going to the Frozen Four! www.unionprogress.com/2025/04/02/n...

South Allegheny's season ends without a state championship, but as their coach says, "What they’ve accomplished, what they’ve done for this community, it’s really special.” Brad Everett and Emily Matthews tell the story: www.unionprogress.com/2025/03/29/p...

Not an exaggeration, if Joshy (derogatory) Shapiro lets these cuts go through, it would effectively eliminate public transit in Pittsburgh. The cuts that are being described here would be absolutely devastating to a transit system that, bluntly, already struggles to be useful.

The @pghguild.com strike paper's Tuesday morning edition leads with Ed Blazina's story about Pittsburgh Regional Transit beginning the process for "devastating” service cuts and fare increases, and @johnnysantapup.bsky.social story about local players in the NCAA 🏀 tournament: www.unionprogress.com

The @pghguild.com is still on strike, still making a strike paper, with details on the Green Tree interchange of I-376; a softball preview; some March Madness featuring Saint Francis by @johnnysantapup.bsky.social: and our continuing coverage of the state basketball tournament. www.unionprogress.com

Pigs exist to protect capital. All of the power to the workers who fought today.

The @pghguild.com strike paper's @johnnysantapup.bsky.social talks with the coaches of the @pointparku.bsky.social women's and men's basketball teams as they head into the MEC tournament with little chips on their shoulders. www.unionprogress.com/2025/03/04/p...

Your Thursday @pghguild.com strike paper is brimming with beaming high school basketball champions, and by the look of the preview stories by our team -- Brad, Steve, @johnnysantapup.bsky.social and Emily -- it's going to be like that for a while: www.unionprogress.com