Lessons Of NewsGuild Pittsburgh Post Gazette Strike & The Fight For A New Paper

In one of the longest newspaper strikes in the United States, the Pittsburgh Post Gazette NewsGuild members fought against the attacks on their healthcare and union busting by the Block family which owned the newspaper.
It took 1132 days but they won their jobs back and then the company turned the paper over to a "non-profit” which proceeded to terminate most of the union members. This was the longest unfair labor strike in the history of the United States.
NewsGuild striker Steve Mellon talks about the lessons of the strike and his reporting on the East Palestine Norfolk Southern derailment and how that was not getting the reporting in part because of the massive downsizing and destruction of journalists jobs in the United States.
He also talks about their initiative to build a community labor controlled newspaper in the Pittsburgh area.
This interview took place on 5/8/26
Additional Media:
Our Paper Now
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