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Stop the Presses | Tadhg Larabee In Pittsburgh, one newsroom has been on strike for more than two years. Something has to give. Will it be the workers?

The Block family could fully fund the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette if they wanted to. Indeed, meeting the demands of the striking workers would be cheaper than replacing them and retaining a union-busting firm.

Pennsylvania creates 1,202 new parking spaces for long-haul truckers - Pittsburgh Union Progress Mike Carroll, secretary of the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation, knows the needs of truck drivers better than most because he holds a commercial driver’s license. So as PennDOT announced 1,20...

The @pghguild.com strike paper's Ed Blazina reports: Pennsylvania has empathy for long-haul truckers, and 1,202 new parking spaces for them, too: www.unionprogress.com/2025/10/07/p...

One day longer: The @pghguild.com strike paper is back with @stevemellon412.bsky.social's report on Saturday's concert for people of East Palestine area, and Ed Blazina on PA charging ahead with electric vehicles and on this week's roadwork that's eating Oakland parking spots: www.unionprogress.com

Best in Show: PUP high school football rankings (Oct. 5) - Pittsburgh Union Progress The PUP sports staff unveils its latest "Best in Show" rankings following Week 6 of the high school football season.

The @pghguild.com strike paper's Western Pennsylvania high school football rankings are up, with 📷 by Emily Matthews. "Finally," writes Steve Rotstein, "some moving and shaking" -- at least in Class 4A. www.unionprogress.com/2025/10/05/b...

In the @pghguild.com Sunday "paper," @johnnysantapup.bsky.social covers all the college football; Ed Blazina reports that it takes money for PGH Transit to, well, take money; and the PMP Newsroom's Erin Yudt covers "giant generational wealth being lost daily” to smarter scams: www.unionprogress.com

Concert will benefit those whose lives were scrambled by East Palestine derailment - Pittsburgh Union Progress If you’d like to show some solidarity with the people still struggling after the disastrous 2023 Norfolk Southern train derailment in the working-class village of East Palestine, Ohio, you can do so S...

Today on the river in Rochester, Pa.: www.unionprogress.com/2025/09/28/c...

Western Pennsylvania high school football's scores, scares, stars, sights & sounds -- the @pghguild.com's Steve Rotstein, Johnny Santa and Emily Matthews have it covered. Here's what happened Friday night: www.unionprogress.com

Grants that Work: The Pittsburgh Downtown Media Hub is a novel way for funders to support local news - Poynter In a quest to boost a city's downtown, a foundation brought needed space, collaboration to hyperlocal news sites.

This may well be the nicest "newsroom" in the country, right here in Pittsburgh: www.poynter.org/business-wor...

Today's @pghguild.com strike paper has everything you need to pregame for football tonight; more things to do this fine weekend, from a park day to a house tour to this concert for the folks of the East Palestine area; plus driving routes you may want to avoid. Have a good one! www.unionprogress.com

My grandfather was part of this.

In the @pghguild.com strike paper, read about Riverlife's "relentless" plans to “complete the loop” of parks and trails around the confluence of the Mon, Ohio and Allegheny rivers. Read about Riverview Park Day. And there's a Riverside reference in the PUP football notebook: www.unionprogress.com

From Wednesday's PUP, you can start to see Friday night. Steve Rotstein has the football Game of the Week and Andrew Goldstein has an update on a Pennsylvania bill that would ban smoking at casinos and bus stops: www.unionprogress.com

Fed-up Starbucks baristas stage 'practice picket' in Pittsburgh Unionized Starbucks baristas say sudden store closures last weekend, including three in Pittsburgh, prove they need a contract with the coffeehouse chain. Lack of a contract leaves little legal recour...

On Monday's @sbworkersunited.org practice picket: triblive.com/business/fed...

This morning the @pghguild.com strike paper leads with Ed Blazina's report on the reopening of the Herron Street Bridge, and we happily to share @pointparku.bsky.social's Next Generation Newsroom story and photos by Erin Yudt about rising vaccine exemptions across the region: www.unionprogress.com

Crisis averted: The Waterfront, PRT reach deal to continue bus stops - Pittsburgh Union Progress Apparently as a result of bad publicity and the involvement of elected officials, the proposed closure of bus stops at two stores at The Waterfront complex has been averted. The Pittsburgh Regional Tr...

Breaking: As the @pghguild.com strike paper's Ed Blazina's story this morning reported was still quite possible, the parties involved in the PGH Regional Transit bus stop location situation at The Waterfront have agreed on a solution. Here's the latest: www.unionprogress.com/2025/09/29/c...

Thanks for reading! I’ll share your question with my colleague Ed.

The @pghguild.com's Ed Blazina starts out another week with a beyond-the-noise report on the PGH Regional Transit bus stops situation at The Waterfront, on which parties still are working to solve. He's also got his weekly heads-up on regional roadwork, including on Route 28: www.unionprogress.com

Best in Show: PUP high school football rankings (Sept. 28) - Pittsburgh Union Progress Each week the Pittsburgh Union Progress will issue its high school football rankings throughout the season, with all rankings voted on by the PUP sports staff. Class 6A 1. Central Catholic (5-1) 2. No...

This week's Western Pennsylvania football rankings are out: www.unionprogress.com/2025/09/28/b...

This @pghguild.com Sunday paper is STRIKING, with stories on lifesaving Oakland traffic improvements, grants to the Mine Wars Museum to build “Courage in the Hollers," the 10/4 benefit concert for those hurt by the East Palestine derailment, and the Brighton Heights House Tour: www.unionprogress.com

District college football: No. 8 California upsets No. 4 Slippery Rock in Division II's only battle of Top 10 teams; W&J offense explodes to knock off Grove City - Pittsburgh Union Progress A season ago, California University of Pennsylvania used a regular-season upset of Slippery Rock to catapult itself toward its first outright Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference West Division title...

All the Western Pennsylvania college football: The @pghguild.com's @johnnysantapup.bsky.social spent Saturday covering California of PA, Slippery Rock, Washington & Jefferson, Grove City, Seton Hill, Indiana of PA, Duquesne, Waynesburg, Thiel, Pitt and more: : www.unionprogress.com/2025/09/27/d...

Sept. 27.

You cook?

How to Survive the End of the World Award-winning Kentucky poet Lucie Brooks, a finalist for the Grand Prix poetry prize, with ten lines of instruction on how to survive.

Man, I love this poem by Lucie Brooks @salvationsouth.com

www.salvationsouth.com/how-to-survi...

With grit and heart, coming off big injuries, the @pghguild.com sports team of Steve, Brad, Emily and @johnnysantapup.bsky.social covered Friday night right. 🏈scores, stars, sights and sounds are in today's PUP, with Ed Blazina on PGH Transit's plans and roadwork to avoid: www.unionprogress.com

Another week with no court ruling, another striker pizza.

The Citizen Recommends: Ken Burns's American Revolution The award-winning documentarian will be in town October 9 to promote his upcoming PBS series on our country’s founding

Here's a great interview with @kenlburns.bsky.social and Sarah Botstein about their upcoming "The American Revolution" in the @thephilacitizen.bsky.social and by Pittsburgh Union Progress alum Delaney Parks:
thephiladelphiacitizen.org/the-citizen-...

Steelers will be more than a little Irish in practice jerseys leading up to the game Sunday in Dublin - Pittsburgh Union Progress The connection between the Rooney family and Ireland has been well reported on and hyped in the lead-up to the first regular-season NFL game Sunday in Dublin. Can that link become even more evident? Y...

Check out the @pittsburghsteeler.bsky.social practice jerseys for the Dublin game. The @pghguild.com's Helen Fallon has the however you say scoop in Irish Gaelic: www.unionprogress.com/2025/09/26/s...

Yes, the @pghguild.com is still on its unfair labor practices strike, and still publishing a strike paper, with news on a meeting on the I-79/Route 910 Wexford interchange and two city traffic calming projects; a feature on fall parks events; and the big PUP football notebook: www.unionprogress.com

🚨 The largest strike in May 2025:

📍 AFSCME & @cwaunion.bsky.social workers at the University of California & UC Health
📍Over 57,000 workers took action ✊

We’ll also be releasing the June–August monthly reports soon—stay tuned!
#LaborAction #Strikes #WorkerPower

The @pghguild.com strike paper's high school football Game of the Week: Upper St. Clair (5-0) at Peters (5-0). Steve Rotstein takes the snap. And Ed Blazina reports on a closure of the Mon Incline next week to replace the main cable and safety cable: www.unionprogress.com