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, the Pittsburgh Union Progress, wishes fellow union members and workers and especially its relentless supporters a very happy Labor Day. Here's something Brad Everett, Emily Matthews, John Santa and Steve Rotstein made for you: www.unionprogress.com/2025/08/31/b...

Hot off the presses and just hot — @jenku.bsky.social’s ratty new shirt design for our @pghguild.com. $20. I’m bootlegging some starting today Downtown for the @newsguild.org sector conference.

Striking page designer @johnnysantapup.bsky.social joins the @aflcio.org “It’s Better in a Union” bus tour to talk about what union solidarity means after over 1000 days on strike against @post-gazette.com.

NEW from me & Evelyn Quartz: Zohran Mamdani won a clear mandate - but the Democratic political/media elite is already trying to downplay it & pretend it was just vibes rather than a demand for policy change. The battle for the future has just begun. www.levernews.com/zohran-mamda...

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.

The hump day strike paper has a glass act in Oakmont-Verona (by Helen Fallon), the high school track notebook (by Brad Everett), the high school softball notebook (by Steve Rotstein and Emily Matthews) and a update on the @pghguild.com's ongoing fight in federal court: www.unionprogress.com

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.

Bezos and WAPO are refusing to recognize the tech workers' union at The Post. So, @wapotechguild.bsky.social & @postguild.bsky.social joined together today to rally outside HQ and show management they're united in this fight! 💥

The @pghguild.com strike paper leads with Andrew Goldstein covering the @nteunion.bsky.social and AFGE workers rally in Downtown Pittsburgh, and Steve Rotstein and Emily Matthews have a PUP baseball notebook featuring Avonworth, Belle Vernon, Bishop Canevin and Eden Christian: www.unionprogress.com

PUP basketball awards season isn't over. Our @jenku.bsky.social teams up with Brad Everett and Steve Rotstein to present the boys and girls players and boys and girls coaches of the year: www.unionprogress.com

This year's Press Club of Western Pennsylvania Golden Quill Awards finalists are published: www.unionprogress.com/2025/04/07/t...

Your @pghguild.com strike paper for Thursday covers a cool new charity basketball tournament -- "It’s a rare occasion, kind of like Halley’s Comet," says one organizer -- and not just Earth Day, but also Earth Month: www.unionprogress.com

We requested @post-gazette.com give the improved health care we recently won to all bargaining unit employees. To be clear, the 3rd Circuit Court already ordered the PG to do this. It’s just delaying in an attempt to deny its CURRENT employees health care.

The @pghguild.com strike paper sports section is special on this Sunday, with the PUP high school boys and girls basketball all-star teams (with @jenku.bsky.social graphics), South Fayette girls' stunner of a state basketball championship, and the Pittsburgh Wrestling Classic: www.unionprogress.com

BREAKING: Today the 3rd Circuit Court enjoined the @post-gazette.com ordering the company to — upon request — immediately restore the health care it illegally took away in 2020, and bargain with us. This is an enormous win and the most consequential day of our entire strike.

The Tuesday strike paper leads with news about @pghguild.com, which a panel of federal judges granted a rare injunction and win in the ongoing strike. Meanwhile, Ed Blazina and @jenku.bsky.social have a story / graphic about the country's infrastructure getting a bit better: www.unionprogress.com

“A lot more equity” in court cases: The Bukit Bail Fund is the Pittsburgh region’s only community bail fund. They say their work addresses injustices in the criminal justice system.

Some @pghguild.com strikers also visited the East Palestine, Ohio, area Monday, so they worked late to make Tuesday's strike paper, packed with news on traffic safety meetings, transit construction, Montour's Ama Sow and more high school hoops, a home care workers rally, more: www.unionprogress.com

Working from home just two days a week saves workers anywhere from $305 to $2,357 per year on travel, parking, food and work clothes. Trump and the CEOs who want workers back in the office full time are handing workers a pay cut, says MarketWatch. www.marketwatch.com/story/for-fe...

From @jenku.bsky.social and the rest of us here at the PUP: www.unionprogress.com

We've held the line for two years now against the Post-Gazette's never-ending union busting, and yesterday the NLRB filed for emergency relief in our case that is nearing the end of the appeals process. We're going to win and we're going to win big.

If you see anyone talking about how the Amazon strike could disrupt the flow of packages:

BREAKING: Amazon drivers at a major Atlanta facility have voted unanimously to authorize a strike. They join @teamsters.bsky.social in NYC, Illinois, and California in authorizing strikes at Amazon in the lead up to Christmas — the company's busiest days.

BREAKING: Amazon delivery drivers in Skokie, Illinois have also authorized a strike. These workers serve thousands and thousands of people in the Chicago area. The Teamsters gave Amazon a December 15th deadline to come to the bargaining table.

You can help striking Pittsburgh Post-Gazette workers by helping them feed their animal companions during their third winter on the picket line.

The Sunday front page of America's oldest strike "paper" belongs to our sports team, who, with high school football programs across Western Pennsylvania, have made you our annual tradition since 2022, when we called them the PUP Awards: www.unionprogress.com

BREAKING: Amazon workers in NYC are going on strike right before Christmas—the company's busiest time. The first unionized Amazon warehouse is going to shut down in a historic walkout. Workers plan to hit the company where it hurts to win their first union contract. www.youtube.com/watch?v=AI1k...

Pittsburgh - if you know this neo-Nazi who was waving a flag on the Liberty Bridge there are people who would like to know his name. Flier and alt-text copied from where I saw it on twitter. Link in question is: pghfashwatch.noblogs.org/liberty-brid...

As our strike against the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette enters a third holiday season, we’re raising money to keep our strikers and their families supported. Can you make a donation to show that the community has their backs as they continue to hold the line against the millionaire Block family?