The Monday @pghguild.com strike paper: The Panhandle Bridge upgrade is on, work on Pittsburgh Regional Transit's University Line stations and other roadwork around the region, and this week's Best in Show high school football rankings: www.unionprogress.com

In today's @pghguild.com strike paper: These two Pittsburgh-area parks places are "Great," as is the need for food assistance across the region, and this Upper St. Clair quarterback is "off to a nearly flawless start" and wanting to leave a good message in his senior season: www.unionprogress.com

Guild locals around the country are donating their $1,000 organizing prize money to support @pghguild.com strikers in the longest strike in the U.S. 🤝 "A union is one big family, and when one unit suffers, we all suffer and need to pitch in." www.unionprogress.com/2025/09/14/w...

We at the @pghguild.com strike paper are back for another week and who knows where that will take us? Thanks to Ed Blazina, we do have a few places we'll try to avoid: www.unionprogress.com/2025/09/15/i...

The @pghguild.com strike paper sports staff's pick 6: www.unionprogress.com/2025/09/07/b...

We, the staff of @CVJCguild, are forming a union! A strong local news ecosystem needs strong workers. We’re asking our leadership to formally recognize us so we can shape the future of local media together. ▶️Read our mission statement ▶️ Sign our petition ▶️ Following @CVCJGuild here and on IG

The @pghguild.com strike paper leads with the Labor Day Parade, throws in tunnel and roadwork, and scouts the Peters football team. Steve Rotstein writes "you would be hard pressed to find a more consistent title contender — or a better turnaround story — in all of Western Pa." www.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.

Also a helluva a sports report, with Brad Everett taking us inside the college football transfer portal that helped put WPIAL/City League players at 24 Power Four schools, and Steve Rotstein on the Hempfield Area QB honoring his late dad and playing with a poise beyond his years: unionprogress.com

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

It's Monday Aug. 25 and the @pghguild.com is still on strike and still making a strike "paper," with stories on Young Scholars' 10th anniversary, roadwork 'round the region, the PUP sports recruiting notebook and this week's Best in Show: PUP high school football rankings: www.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...

To quote the Imani Christian Saints coach, "Those guys, they have an attitude when they play." The @pghguild.com still-on-strike paper sports staff -- Emily, Brad, Steve and @johnnysantapup.bsky.social -- cover Western Pennsylvania high school football's first Friday night: www.unionprogress.com

The @pghguild.com still-on-strike paper pregames tonight's start of the Western Pennsylvania high school football season, which includes the debut of a stadium named for homegrown pro Tyler Boyd, by talking with some of its current stars. The roadwork, meanwhile, never ends. www.unionprogress.com

On Football Season Eve, the @pghguild.com still-on-strike paper sports team delivers the WPIAL Class 6A scouting report, the PUP preseason rankings, and Brad Everett's "10 things I’m looking forward to watching this high school football season." www.unionprogress.com

Tomorrow, the striking workers sit down with @post-gazette.com management in court ordered mediation to attempt to resolve our issues and settle the strike. PG executive editor Stan Wischnowski has the power to end the strike and choose to hide instead. Today we’re telling him again how we feel.

"Raring to go": Today, the class act that is the @pghguild.com still-on-strike paper's sports team continues to drive towards the first Friday night of the new high school football season by scouting WPIAL Class 4A: www.unionprogress.com

At the two-year, 10-month mark of the @pghguild.com strike, the PUP is packed with more preseason high school football (3A and 2A), more roadwork, and another AI story shared by @pointparku.bsky.social's teaching newsroom's @thathakas.bsky.social. Read, share and support at www.unionprogress.com

Emily Escalante is a resident of Pittsburgh's Mexican War Streets neighborhood and a member of the Block Communications, Inc. board of directors. Emily sits in her gentrified home and hides her true identity as a union-buster. Today, we hung flyers in her neighborhood to reveal who she really is.

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

We went to @post-gazette.com publisher John Block’s house yesterday and we were NOT alone. The Block Communications Inc. co-owner, who’s on the record wanting to fire his own lawyers, however, chose to hide from his workers, Pittsburgh & our @cwaunion.bsky.social family.

🔥 After The NewsGuild Sector Conference, we took the fight to the doorstep of the @post-gazette.com owners. Guild members from across North America stood shoulder-to-shoulder with PG strikers going 1,000+ days strong. 📷 & full story: www.unionprogress.com/2025/08/13/f...

In the wee hours of this morning, Ed Blazina emailed us at the @pghguild.com strike paper, "I filed a fairly long list of roadwork for this week." Here it is: www.unionprogress.com/2025/08/11/a...

Got too much stuff? Eco Scouts to the rescue! Helen Fallon reports first-person on the @paresourcescouncil.bsky.social / Allegheny CleanWays program in the @pghguild.com Sunday strike paper: www.unionprogress.com/2025/08/03/s...

The @pghguild.com strike paper soldiers on, as Ed Blazina tells us what those five new platforms popping up across Downtown are all about (getting bus riders off sidewalks). And we have some new ads by one of our unwavering supporters, Barrel & Flow, which is happening Aug. 9. www.unionprogress.com

The @pghguild.com strike paper's Ed Blazina writes about a new PennDOT campaign to ensure drivers "Check Your Height" so the tops of their vehicles don't crash into bridges. As you can read in his other story, there's enough bridge and road construction going on: www.unionprogress.com

The @pghguild.com strike paper's Ed Blazina: 5 new Downtown bus stations on Pittsburgh Regional Transit's University Line -- Fifth & Ross St., Fifth & William Penn Place, Fifth & Market St., Sixth & Wood St., and Steel Plaza at Sixth & Grant St. -- open today: www.unionprogress.com/2025/07/27/u...

From the @pghguild.com TGIF strike paper, it's going to be a light weekend for roadwork, but a heavy weekend for streets play, and today is National Carousel Day: www.unionprogress.com

We wanted to welcome @post-gazette.com editor Stan Wischnowski to work today, but unfortunately Stan can’t be bothered to come up with a plan to settle our strike. (The company did accuse of us “graffitiing” the parking lot though…) See you next time, Stan!

The @pghguild.com Thursday strike paper leads with @stevemellon412.bsky.social's report on @deluzio.house.gov continuing to push for the passage of the Railway Safety Act. And you can ride the Schenley Park carousel for free on Friday, which is National Carousel Day: www.unionprogress.com

Shout out to @lizshuler.bsky.social, @aflcio.org and everyone who stood at today's It's Better In a Union bus tour stop outside @steelworkers.bsky.social HQ. To join them in supporting strikers in the longest-running strike in the country, visit unionprogress.com/donate today!

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.

From the @pghguild.com Sunday strike "paper," Ed Blazina reports on how the Pennsylvania Turnpike reduced work-zone crashes by more than 20%. “It wasn’t any one thing." Plus, sign up with @paresourcescouncil.bsky.social to recycle your household chemicals and difficult junk: www.unionprogress.com

This week marked 1,000(!) days on strike. It shouldn't take this long to stop the @post-gazette.com from mocking labor law and the courts. But as Ed Blazina puts it: "We get through with the kindness of strangers." Can that include you today? www.unionprogress.com/donate/

Today's @pghguild.com strike paper leads with a double dose of Ed Blazina -- reporting on how Pittsburgh Regional Transit’s board members are exploring other options to avoid massive cuts in February, and on all roadwork scheduled around the region this weekend and next week: www.unionprogress.com

Tyler Pecyna would be happy to toss a copy of his excellent @pghguild.com strike "paper" newsletter onto your digital stoop. Just subscribe at www.unionprogress.com/subscribe

The Sunday @pghguild.com strike paper: @stevemellon412.bsky.social reports on a Pitt study on East Palestine residents' exposure to vinyl chloride and on the chemical's history "of deceit and greed," while the Next Generation Newsroom's Erin Yudt reports on big education cuts: www.unionprogress.com

The @pghguild.com Sunday strike "paper" covers the @50501pittsburgh.bsky.social / Casa San Jose "Stand with Immigrants" rally Downtown and @ura.org's 15-acre solar field and 55-acre Frick Park expansion in Swisshelm Park that's briefly closing Nine Mile Run Trail: www.unionprogress.com

Good morning from the @pghguild.com strike paper, in which Ed Blazina writes about a section of the Pittsburgh Regional Transit Red Line that's closed for track replacement and about a lot of other road construction to avoid if you can: www.unionprogress.com

Monday's @pghguild.com strike paper leads with @stevemellon412.bsky.social's coverage of Sunday's rally where "UPMC workers call out their bosses, say ending gender-affirming care for those under age 19 will result in deaths." Ed Blazina previews July 4 week road disruptions: www.unionprogress.com

The Friday @pghguild.com strike paper leads with stories on Carnegie of Homestead Music Hall's seats sale this weekend, a new TRIP study assessing the condition of Pennsylvania and Pittsburgh-area roads and bridges, weekend roadwork on some of those, and ... a solid bunny. www.unionprogress.com

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.

On Saturday, @pghguild.com striking worker Natalie Duleba spoke the truth at PGH's #NoKingsDay rally: When journalists are targeted, it's working people who suffer most. Rich owners like the Blocks will do anything but provide fair wages and worker protections. We won't let them win. 📽️ Jason Cohn

Friday's @pghguild.com strike paper has a roundup of the Pittsburgh roadwork to avoid this weekend, rundowns on the state softball and baseball playoffs, and a report on a rare bargaining session between the striking journalists and the PG (📷 by @stevemellon412.bsky.social): www.unionprogress.com

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

Pittsburgh is putting in better LED streetlights, its Emergency Medical Service grows into the future while honoring its Freedom House past, and the Next Gen Newsroom details an increase in logging in the Allegheny National Forest -- all in the @pghguild.com's strike paper, www.unionprogress.com

This morning's @pghguild.com strike paper is a statewide issue, as it sets the stage for Wednesday's Transit for All PA rally in Harrisburg, and rounds up the results so far in the PIAA softball and baseball tournaments: www.unionprogress.com

The @pghguild.com's Ed Blazina has another Pittsburgh detour heads-up: www.unionprogress.com/2025/06/02/p...

The @pghguild.com strike paper starts the week with your Pittsburgh roadwork roundup: www.unionprogress.com/2025/06/01/m...

The Sunday strike paper, made by @pghguild.com, leads with the rally for single-payer health care, Pennsylvania's new distracted driver law (no holding your cell phone in the car now), Pittsburgh parks' high ranking, and an ongoing worker dispute at an abortion care provider: www.unionprogress.com