STRIKE UPDATE: More than 1,000 members sent a letter to scabs at the Post-Gazette telling them they are "undermining the strike by crossing the picket line."
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The signers include hundreds of journalists and media workers from many publications around North America including the New York Times, the Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, The Associated Press, The Los Angeles Times, the Philadelphia Inquirer and many more.
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Side note: current Post-Gazette editor Stan Wischnowski used to work at the Philadelphia Inquirer — many, many journalists from Philadelphia signed on.
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members include many other awesome non-media workers who also signed on, including at the AFL-CIO, UFCQ, M+R, Working America (we're working out of an old WA office in the building--thanks to them!), Common Cause and many others!
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These 1,000+ workers wrote, "Striking journalists recognize banding together and protecting one another through a union is one of the few things we can do to save our struggling industry."
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"Just look at the thousands of journalists who have unionized over the last decade."
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The workers wrote, "The numbers are clear: a union is one of the few resources we have to protect our jobs from stagnating wages and mass layoffs. It’s an essential vehicle through which we can protect our democracy and each other."
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Another major note in this story: People have been so generous that they have given almost a QUARTER OF A MILLION DOLLARS to Pittsburgh Post-Gazette strikers unionprogress.com/2023/02/01/100
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All we have is each other.
Solidarity is real.
1,000+ members wrote:
"We urge you to stand alongside your colleagues on the picket line and uphold the values of holding power accountable and minimizing harm."
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