NewsGuild-CWA member Helen Fallon has now lived through two strikes, but she’s still all in. She is on strike against the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette — the longest continuous strike in the US & the longest strike ever in Pittsburgh. Read her story. unionprogress.com/2024/08/04/jou…

Happy Barrel & Flow WEEK! Our Bob Batz Jr. caught up with founder Day Bracey this morning before a pre-gaming event tonight at which city, county and state officials (Rep. Lindsay Powell here) honor America's Black beer festival. It looks to sell out on Saturday: unionprogress.com/2024/08/06/hap…

BIG NEWS: The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette has broken federal labor law so viciously for so long that the NLRB has filed for an injunction that, if granted, would go a long way toward holding the Block family accountable and returning a caliber of news to Pittsburgh this community deserves.

"We the employees still have a voice!" So said Kitsy Higgins as she and other workers who've been on strike for 22 months speak at a press conference about an NLRB injunction that could put them back to work: unionprogress.com/2024/08/16/wel…

Sunday PUP: It continues to be a big week for the Pittsburgh news strike, which, for the journalists, at noon today, rolls into its 23rd month. Our Steve Mellon tells what that's like: unionprogress.com/2024/08/18/a-2… (📷Alexandra Wimley)

Whose side are you on? The side of the law breaking rich family and its scab sycophants or the ones fighting to be treated fairly and with dignity in the workplace? I’ll stand with Steve Mellon and the rest of the Newspaper Guild of Pittsburgh 🗞. unionprogress.com/2024/08/18/a-2…

More future football at WPIAL Class 3A: Steve Rotstein breaks down this season's conferences, teams and players to watch, while Rob Joesbury features Elizabeth Forward HS, and you know Emily Matthews is all over the field: unionprogress.com

The big story is Vice President Kamala Harris's and Governor Tim Walz visit to Western Pennsylvania before 2024 Democratic National Convention. Our Alexandra Wimley and Steve Mellon hangared out with them and their supporters for a while: unionprogress.com/2024/08/18/the…

Sunday PUP: Our Steve Mellon looks into "remarkable solidarity" of the AHN West Penn Hospital nurses, who go into Tuesday's bargaining session ready to strike: unionprogress.com/2024/08/25/com…

Sunday PUP: We'd like you readers' help on this one. Send us your favorite stories and snaps of the Point State Park fountain, the Pittsburgh icon that, as our Helen Fallon reports, is feted for turning 50 this week: unionprogress.com/2024/08/25/sha… (📷 by Steve Mellon)

It's a small thing, but along w/ representing The Real News it was important to me to wear my Pittsburgh Union Progress 📰 Newspaper Guild of Pittsburgh 🗞 pin throughout our week of reporting from #DNC2024 to show solidarity w/ our colleagues on strike Pittsburgh Post-Gazette for almost TWO YEARS. Don't forget about them ❤️✊🏽

There's a PA Department of Conservation & Natural Resources lunchtime program today, our Helen Fallon writes, celebrating the 50th birthday of the iconic Point State Park fountain. Who knows: A guy might swim in from a boat to join some wedding photos. It's happened there before: unionprogress.com/2024/08/25/sha…

A lot of us, including our Bob Batz Jr., know what we're going to be doing Downtown on Monday morning. Come on down and march with us: unionprogress.com/2024/08/30/mon…

Today's top story is one that's always important to us and to our Steve Mellon: East Palestine, "a community of people damaged in ways that can be difficult for others to see or understand." unionprogress.com/2024/08/30/der…

In news, our Steve Mellon covers a candlelight vigil by more nurses who are ready to strike for a fair contract as well as for patients across Pennsylvania. Says Corey O'Connor, "We are 20,000 people short." unionprogress.com/2024/09/06/the…

Free advice for young journalists, but also not young ones: If you're considering taking a job right now at the PG, something many journalists NEVER would do, do your research. Contact Jon Schleuss supports PittsburghPG strikers and ask him about the more than 90 first union contracts journalists recently have won.

In news, our Steve Mellon worked the night shift last night to report on the AHN nurses approving one contract and reaching a tentative agreement on another one: unionprogress.com/2024/09/10/nur…

Our Steve Mellon covers PittGradUnion's huge win. "The rally was brief — only about 10 minutes. ... But before the crowd broke up, Caroline Layding, a grad worker in the biostatistics department, reminded everyone that, together, they have strength." unionprogress.com/2024/09/11/pit…

huge shout out to Steve Mellon and Pittsburgh Union Progress 📰 for covering yesterday's PittGradUnion rally. These folks have been on strike for 24 months and they still find a way to show up. Help them defend local journalism by subscribing to Pittsburgh Union Progress 📰 and more importantly.... (1/2).

Our always busy but ever calm Ed Blazina reports that a traffic calming is settling over another City of Pittsburgh neighborhood: unionprogress.com/2024/09/11/nex…