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Donate to Help Families of USW Local 1557 Clairton works, organized by Travis Laing The USW local 1557 will be raising funds for the families of the deceased … Travis Laing needs your support for Help Families of USW Local 1557 Clairton works

Here's a way to support our @steelworkers.bsky.social fam in and around Clairton: gofund.me/32d6b619

Advocates push Pittsburgh Regional Transit to delay cuts, but agency says it needs more money - Pittsburgh Union Progress For nearly three weeks, Pittsburgh Regional Transit CEO Katharine Eagan Kelleman and her planning staff have been playing a daily waiting game, waiting for the state Legislature to adopt a new budget ...

The PUP's Ed Blazina reports from Pittsburgh Regional Transit's monthly board meeting where "more than two dozen transit advocates ... encouraged the board to use some of its reserve funds to delay the scheduled [service] cutbacks until September 2026 ..." www.unionprogress.com/2025/07/26/a...

The Onion: Protesters Urged Not To Give Trump Administration Pretext For What It Already Doing

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I've thought many times in the last 7 years that it's likely that the most impactful thing I will have done in my academic career was the work to organize the Tufts PhD student union.
But we, as organizers talked about extra protections for international PhD students, I never imagined this.

Pittsburgh is a union town! #solidarity✊

BREAKING: Police have been called on current and former Starbucks workers in Pittsburgh. This store went on strike, with workers demanding the company finalize fair contracts - and now some are being arrested.

Shame on Starbucks for letting it get to this point.

#ToBeAPartner

Social movement scholarship is clear that both activist organizations (founded as explicitly political) and everyday organizations (eg NGOs, sports & recreational clubs, neighborhood committees) can all be useful for promoting collective action.

Pittsburgh civil engineers announce 2024 awards, including one to PUP's Ed Blazina - Pittsburgh Union Progress The American Society of Civil Engineers Pittsburgh Section has announced its annual awards “to celebrate and raise public awareness about civil engineering and the contributions that civil engineers m...

Also, Ed Blazina isn't on here yet, except when I share his stories for the @pghguild.com strike paper, but if you see him in real life, congratulate him for earning the journalism award of the American Society of Civil Engineers Pittsburgh: www.unionprogress.com/2025/02/02/p...

Reporting live from Downtown this morning, the @pghguild.com strike paper's Ed Blazina has two stories on Pittsburgh Regional Transit. The agency has a severe financial shortfall. And a transit advocacy group takes issue with much of its proposed bus route redesign. www.unionprogress.com

Inclusionary zoning prevails before Pittsburgh commission Pittsburgh’s City Planning Commission endorsed Mayor Ed Gainey’s proposal to require affordable units in larger, new housing construction, after rejecting a less comprehensive version, at the end of a...

Here's @publicsource.org coverage of yesterday's Pittsburgh City Planning Commission meeting on inclusionary zoning — all 11 HOURS of testimony and public comment.

tl;dr: Gainey's plan won approval, Charland's plan was voted down. www.publicsource.org/inclusionary...

workers coming together to fight for the wages they deserve?

OH THANK HEAVEN 🙏🔥🔥

From one of our Pittsburgh pickets:

join the line in Pittsburgh ✊️✊️✊️

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Striker Holiday Fund Workers at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette have been on strike for over two years. Contributions to the Holiday Fund will be used to purchase gas and union supermarket gift cards for striking workers.

As our strike against the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette enters a third holiday season, we’re raising money to keep our strikers and their families supported.

Can you make a donation to show that the community has their backs as they continue to hold the line against the millionaire Block family?

👇👇👇 Support the workers who grow all the food on your Thanksgiving table!

Great news from Pitt, where graduate workers voted to unionize with @steelworkers.bsky.social in a landslide! More than 97% supported forming a union to negotiate better pay, benefits, and working conditions. Another big step forward for workers in higher ed.

BREAKING! University of Pittsburgh grad students just voted to unionize with United Steelworkers, following the Staff doing the same in September and Faculty also doing the same two years ago. Pitt is now fully a union shop 💪 and I will this one time only allow myself to unironically say Hail 2 Pitt

i joined the committee just after that loss, it was high covid and prospects looked bleak. I'm so proud we could take lessons learned and put up these numbers ✊️✊️✊️

when we fight, we win!

members of the Pitt Graduate Workers Organizing Committee hold a blue banner that reads "Pitt Graduate Workers Union- USW. The university runs on grad labor."

a legal notepad with a vote counters final Tally. the paper is divided into 2 columns, with 1033 tick marks in the yes column and 28 ticks in the no column

pitt graduate workers hug after final tallies are complete

graduate worker organizers celebrate after the union victory

Graduate workers at the University of Pittsburgh voted overwhelmingly to unionize.

Over 97% of Graduate Teaching Assistants, Teaching Fellows, Graduate Student Researchers, and Graduate Student Assistants voted to join the @steelworkers.bsky.social

Tally: 1033 YES - 28 NO

Working on a starter pack of union folks in PA. Reply if I missed you. 👇👇 go.bsky.app/QXEknha

grad unions keep racking up wins! next week 2000 grad workers at the University of Pittsburgh will vote to join @steelworkers.bsky.social !

very proud of a friend who helped organize on this campaign ✊️✊️✊️

intro post! I'm a sociology PhD candidate at the Univ. of Pittsburgh, researching how grassroots movements for labor and climate justice shape urban development by working with local public transit advocates.

I also double as a union organizer in higher ed

looking forward to connecting with folks!

We are the Newspaper Guild of Pittsburgh, representing the striking journalists at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, and the full-time faculty at Point Park University.

Coalition of Graduate Employees The Coalition of Graduate Employees at Oregon State University is the union that stands for the betterment of the research and teaching assistants' work conditions and rights by bargaining fair workin...

The Coalition of Graduate Employees at Oregon State, AFT Local 6069, is on strike! OSU is bargaining in bad faith. Teachers can't teach if they can't buy groceries. Researchers can't research if they can't make rent.

Learn more here www.cge6069.org

And donate to the strike fund on Venmo @CGE-OSU

Right-wing elites are more palatable because they promote the myth of meritocracy--that anyone can be elite if they work hard enough and if government gets out of their way.

This is a myth, but it gives people a sense of agency, and it appeals to those who feel government has burned them before.