The @pghguild.com strike paper's high school football Game of the Week: Elizabeth Forward v. Southmoreland. Here's Steve Rotstein: www.unionprogress.com/2025/10/15/p...

In Pittsburgh, @pghguild.com journalists at the Post-Gazette have been on strike for over 3 years: 📍illegal union-busting & bad-faith bargaining 📍loss of health care, pay, and job protections 🔗 www.unionprogress.com/2025/10/08/h...

The PUP high school football rankings and this week's roadwork -- in today's @pghguild.com strike paper: www.unionprogress.com

The @pghguild.com strike paper: PA House passes a bill to give strikers unemployment benefits; PA Labor & Industry rededicates The Pennsylvania Worker; role playing seeks to reduce the digital divide; and it's almost Friday, so Steve Rotstein brings the PUP football notebook: 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.

The @pghguild.com strike paper's Ed Blazina reports: Pennsylvania has empathy for long-haul truckers, and 1,202 new parking spaces for them, too: www.unionprogress.com/2025/10/07/p...

One day longer: The @pghguild.com strike paper is back with @stevemellon412.bsky.social's report on Saturday's concert for people of East Palestine area, and Ed Blazina on PA charging ahead with electric vehicles and on this week's roadwork that's eating Oakland parking spots: www.unionprogress.com

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

Today's @pghguild.com strike paper has everything you need to pregame for football tonight; more things to do this fine weekend, from a park day to a house tour to this concert for the folks of the East Palestine area; plus driving routes you may want to avoid. Have a good one! www.unionprogress.com

In the @pghguild.com strike paper, read about Riverlife's "relentless" plans to “complete the loop” of parks and trails around the confluence of the Mon, Ohio and Allegheny rivers. Read about Riverview Park Day. And there's a Riverside reference in the PUP football notebook: www.unionprogress.com

This morning the @pghguild.com strike paper leads with Ed Blazina's report on the reopening of the Herron Street Bridge, and we happily to share @pointparku.bsky.social's Next Generation Newsroom story and photos by Erin Yudt about rising vaccine exemptions across the region: 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

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

Check out the @pittsburghsteeler.bsky.social practice jerseys for the Dublin game. The @pghguild.com's Helen Fallon has the however you say scoop in Irish Gaelic: www.unionprogress.com/2025/09/26/s...

Yes, the @pghguild.com is still on its unfair labor practices strike, and still publishing a strike paper, with news on a meeting on the I-79/Route 910 Wexford interchange and two city traffic calming projects; a feature on fall parks events; and the big PUP football notebook: www.unionprogress.com

The @pghguild.com strike paper's high school football Game of the Week: Upper St. Clair (5-0) at Peters (5-0). Steve Rotstein takes the snap. And Ed Blazina reports on a closure of the Mon Incline next week to replace the main cable and safety cable: www.unionprogress.com

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/