The Post-Gazette Has Stonewalled a Strike for 16 Months
When Pittsburgh Post-Gazette staff walked off the job over a year ago, they had been working without a contract since 2017 and hadn’t gotten an across-the-board raise in 16 years. Sixteen months later, they’re still on strike.
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette workers march on September 4, 2023. (Newspaper Guild of Pittsburgh / X)
Bob Batz Jr thought it would end quickly.
“It’s kind of cute now, that we thought getting into last December [2022] and January was a long time,” Batz said. “Little did we know. [We said] ‘Oh, it’s Christmas and we’re still on strike. We can’t believe it.’”
Batz is one of thirty-one Newspaper Guild workers striking the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, owned by the family company Block Communications, Inc.
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