The bitter three-year strike against Pittsburgh Post-Gazette is over.  

Union members voted to end the strike last Thursday. The vote was 21-4 – an 84% margin.

Earlier in the week, a federal court ordered the Post-Gazette to compensate staff members for worker’s rights violations committed over the past five years and to “repeal” those practices, the NewsGuild-CWA Newspaper Guild of Pittsburgh-CWA announced.

This decision upholds a September 2024 ruling from the National Labor Relations Board.

A half-dozen pizzas arrived, and the union noted that “strikes run on pizza.”

One possible holdup is that PG announced its intention to appeal the ruling, if necessary, up to the Supreme Court, and said it would close the newspaper if it loses.  

The strike started in October 2022.

One issue was that the company took away its healthcare plan without bargaining in July of 2020, and replaced by what the union says is an inferior and more expensive corporate plan.