Today is a great day to support our striking colleagues in Pittsburgh!
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Literally: follow federal law and bargain in good faith with the workers. Then the rat goes away. lol
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Thanks for the free ad @PittsburghPG !!! You can get some good designers back and end the strike by following federal law! twitter.com/ZackTanner/sta…
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James “Hutchie” VanLandingham, a CWA member who has been on strike from his job as a mailer the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette since October 6, 2022, will be 's guest at the State of the Union on Tuesday.
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Meet Hutchie, a union worker on strike at the Post Gazette and my guest for the State of the Union.
A mailroom employee for 28 years and third generation staff member at the paper, he and his colleagues took to the picket line when the paper cut their healthcare.
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We’re thrilled that Crooked Media management has swiftly announced their intention to voluntarily recognize us, and hope for a speedy process:
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Hey there. We, the staff of Crooked Media, have formed a union. Here’s why.
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... And has invited to the State of the Union address striking Pittsburgh news worker James "Hutchie" VanLandingham, whom our has gotten to know:
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Shouts to early supporter of our strike , inviting Nila Payton of , to the State of the Union, too ✊
Nila spoke at our rally last weekend on how the likes of UPMC and the Blocks both want to treat Pittsburgh like a company town.
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... And @RepDeluzio has invited to the State of the Union address striking Pittsburgh news worker James "Hutchie" VanLandingham, whom our @HFallonPPU has gotten to know: unionprogress.com/2023/02/06/mr-
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It's true! Hutchie's our brother in the realest way ✊
Please donate to support striking workers like him and 100+ others via our solidarity fund:
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I'm ready for the PG to restore my fellow workers' healthcare , restore the newsroom's legal contract, and return to good faith bargaining. Easy peasy!
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Great interview, ! ‘So beyond grateful': How a visit to Pittsburgh gave Sarah Polley the strength to make 'Women Talking' - Pittsburgh Union Progress
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As much as this sort of thing endlessly amuses me, Post-Gazette ownership should put on the big boy pants, stop breaking the law and start negotiating a settlement with their workers so that everybody can get on with their lives.
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This is a real ad that the Post-Gazette ran. They literally put in the newspaper that they’re mad. Whatever Pittsburgh’s new economy is, it’s going to be worker led and union. Ask @pghsbuxunited @CWAUnion or any other group of workers fighting.
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They’re right!! That’s exactly why they should end this strike and help Pittsburgh create a new economy with good union jobs and strong local news. 😌
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Fixed it for you.
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Yes, people should stop scabbing and let's end this news workers strike.
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Deeply embarrassed for Post Gazette management.
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This is a real ad that the Post-Gazette ran. They literally put in the newspaper that they’re mad. Whatever Pittsburgh’s new economy is, it’s going to be worker led and union. Ask @pghsbuxunited @CWAUnion or any other group of workers fighting.
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It's like they're begging more of their workers to go on strike.
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PITTSBURGH IS A UNION TOWN 🖤💛🖤💛
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This is a real ad that the Post-Gazette ran. They literally put in the newspaper that they’re mad. Whatever Pittsburgh’s new economy is, it’s going to be worker led and union. Ask @pghsbuxunited @CWAUnion or any other group of workers fighting.
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Losers lmao
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This is a real ad that the Post-Gazette ran. They literally put in the newspaper that they’re mad. Whatever Pittsburgh’s new economy is, it’s going to be worker led and union. Ask @pghsbuxunited @CWAUnion or any other group of workers fighting.
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You know what would help get rid of inflatable rats 🐀? Bargaining in good faith. I don’t know who the Blocks think they are fooling with idiotic ads like this
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This is a real ad that the Post-Gazette ran. They literally put in the newspaper that they’re mad. Whatever Pittsburgh’s new economy is, it’s going to be worker led and union. Ask @pghsbuxunited @CWAUnion or any other group of workers fighting.
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This is a real ad that the Post-Gazette ran. They literally put in the newspaper that they’re mad. Whatever Pittsburgh’s new economy is, it’s going to be worker led and union. Ask or any other group of workers fighting.
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This is disgusting.
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so let me get this straight.
A high school athlete from Ambridge is unable to attend an event at a Steelers game. Photo used in his place is of someone with the same name, but it’s a mugshot — and this person was 35 y/o in 2015 when they were arrested.
How does this happen?
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Great to talk with @CWAUnion & @NewsGuild’s @gaufre on his members’ ongoing strike for healthcare and a fair contract at the @PittsburghPG.
I’ll always stand with workers in the fight for dignity.
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Great to talk with & ’s on his members’ ongoing strike for healthcare and a fair contract at the .
I’ll always stand with workers in the fight for dignity.✊
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BREAKING 🚨
YouTube Music workers are starting a strike today after and management announced they were forcing workers to return to office on February 6.
This is the first strike for ’ and the first known strike at Google. #YouTubeStrike
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Corporate stock buybacks hit $132 billion in the first month of 2023—the highest total ever to start a year.
Many of the companies spending billions on buybacks to enrich investors—from Facebook to Union Pacific—are laying off workers or refusing to improve pay and benefits.
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Private equity firms often fail to fully alert antitrust regulators to certain acquisitions, a DOJ official said.
“These failures are existential threats to our merger enforcement program, and we are treating them as such."
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Happy New Year! 🎆
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We sent our CEO @merrillwilliams a small card with some important 2023 resolutions, among them:
• A pay floor for all employees (we've proposed $55K)
• Annual cost-of-living raises
• Better, equitable parental leave
• A commitment to diversity—both in hiring and retention
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A few New Year’s resolutions 👇
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We sent our CEO @merrillwilliams a small card with some important 2023 resolutions, among them:
• A pay floor for all employees (we've proposed $55K)
• Annual cost-of-living raises
• Better, equitable parental leave
• A commitment to diversity—both in hiring and retention
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We sent our CEO a small card with some important 2023 resolutions, among them:
• A pay floor for all employees (we've proposed $55K)
• Annual cost-of-living raises
• Better, equitable parental leave
• A commitment to diversity—both in hiring and retention
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Having two major news sources in the city owned by notoriously anti-worker management can’t be good. For local journalism to be good, local journalism jobs need to be good.
Via and
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workers remain on strike. The strike has gone on for over 100 days (as of February 2nd, 2023), which has created hardship for many.
To support our union siblings, we are collecting money for the strike fund to help sponsor a member's bills.
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This week, we finally secured over $350k in back pay after illegally reduced union salaries 2 years ago without bargaining. 👍👍
But NBC loves to break the law, recently laying off 7 members and stripping another team of union protections — all without bargaining. 👎👎
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And if you care about workers and local journalists you can support them by supporting striking workers at the Post-Gazette
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At the Capitol today fighting for workers and local news!
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A union isn’t a service you subscribe to.
A union is a decision to stand with your colleagues and fight to make your lives better.
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Our 's other big political fundraising story is about the race for Allegheny County executive. Contributions, or lack thereof, "show that dividing lines might be emerging in the crowded field of candidates seeking to win the Democratic primary."
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Detours ahead: Our is on the big story of the city of Pittsburgh closing Oakland's Charles Anderson Bridge, "preventing another Fern Hollow," says :
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