Not every horror is modern! Amazing untold story in the Pittsburgh Union Progress by @stevemellon412.bsky.social about the hundreds of workers, mostly Black, who died building a West Virginia tunnel and were buried in unmarked graves almost a century ago. www.unionprogress.com/2025/08/28/a...

Deepening the context of why we mark Labor Day, @stevemellon412.bsky.social/Pittsburgh Union Progress traveled to West Virginia for the story of America’s deadliest workplace disaster & the hundreds of sickened workers who died, then were hidden & forgotten: www.unionprogress.com/2025/08/28/a...

Steelmaking deaths like the 2 this month at U.S. Steel’s Clairton plant were once almost routine. Now, deadly explosions are big news, but construction/transport jobs are bigger killers. A look at the worker safety landscape, then & now: www.publicsource.org/clairton-cok... @publicsource.org

Helluva @pghguild.com strike paper today, leading with @stevemellon412.bsky.social digging into the Hawk's Nest Tunnel, America's worst workplace disaster you may not have heard about; a Labor Day Parade preview; and we have a new advertiser. Thanks, @412foodrescue.bsky.social! unionprogress.com

The @pghguild.com strike paper's @stevemellon412.bsky.social covers an important story -- people dying on the job. Says a @steelworkers.bsky.social official, "On average, today alone, 14 workers in this country will not return after their shift." www.unionprogress.com/2025/08/23/t...

PUP's @stevemellon412.bsky.social reports from the @aflcio.org Pittsburgh stop: "So when those days get hard and when you take those punches in your face, in your gut, in your back ... you remember that you have power. We are the movement of the now. We fight.” www.unionprogress.com/2025/07/22/a...

I fricken love the Pittsburgh Union Progress (the newspaper made by journalists on strike at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette) and I fricken love sister @kimkelly.bsky.social ❤️ ✊🏽

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...

🚨 New @therealnews.com: An update on the longest ongoing strike in the US After 2.5 yrs on strike at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, @pghguild.com members are the last ones holding the line. I speak w/ 3 strikers about where things stand w/ the strike & how you can help therealnews.com/an-update-on...

“It’s extremely important that companies can’t do what the Post-Gazette is trying to do… If we have to be the last people to draw that line in the sand… so be it. We’ve been here this long, there’s no reason to go away now.” @pghguild.com

We thank the Park Center for Independent Media at @ithacacollege.bsky.social for this honor and congratulate our fellow award recipients @stevemellon412.bsky.social, @maximillianalvarez.bsky.social and @jewishcurrents.bsky.social

Big News: @therealnews.com won an Izzy Award for our coverage of the East Palestine train derailment & chemical disaster. I'm honored to share this award w/ @stevemellon412.bsky.social, @sfpublicpress.bsky.social & @jewishcurrents.bsky.social. Full statement below ❤️✊🏽 therealnews.com/trnn-wins-20...

Good company: The @pghguild.com strike paper's @stevemellon412.bsky.social will share this year's Izzy Award with fellow independent journalist @maximillianalvarez.bsky.social as well as @jewishcurrents.bsky.social and @sfpublicpress.bsky.social: www.unionprogress.com/2025/04/07/i...

BIG NEWS: We just won an Izzy alongside @stevemellon412.bsky.social for our coverage of the aftermath of the Norfolk-Southern train derailment in East Palestine, OH. therealnews.com/trnn-wins-20...

One person at the rally for gender-affirming care tells @pghguild.com strike paper's @stevemellon412.bsky.social, “We are facing a federal government that is doing everything, everything in its power to deny us our humanity, erase us from history and existence." www.unionprogress.com/2025/04/04/u...

"Empathy is out of vogue," writes the @pghguild.com strike paper's @stevemellon412.bsky.social. But he demonstrates plenty of empathy for people such as two friends of his who share what it feels like right now to have your very life depend on Medicaid: www.unionprogress.com/2025/03/11/w...

Tossed onto your stoop with fingers crossed, it's the Sunday Pittsburgh Union Progress, made by workers including @stevemellon412.bsky.social & @johnnysantapup.bsky.social. We also have an opinion piece by @repjess.com, who's pushing to fix the state's home care crisis. Read at www.unionprogress.com

“Still in limbo” was the refrain after another day of testimony in the three production union case for 10J injunctive relief. @stevemellon412.bsky.social has more for the Union Progress.

“Toxicant-induced loss of tolerance” may be an underlying cause of the wide range of symptoms experienced by residents of East Palestine.

It is this exact kind of corporate/Wall St. greed that blew up the lives of working-class residents in/around East Palestine. Watch this report I did on the ground in EP @therealnews.com before the election. Listen to what this company has put these people through: therealnews.com/trainwreck-i...