Labor Officials To Seek Injunction Against Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Source: Huff Post
Apr 19, 2024, 11:42 AM EDT
Labor officials have received a green light to pursue an injunction in federal court against the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette newspaper for allegedly violating its employees’ rights.
A spokesperson for the National Labor Relations Board confirmed to HuffPost that the agency approved a request by a regional director in Pennsylvania to seek the temporary injunction. The petition is likely to be filed in federal court in the coming days.
Journalists and production employees have been on a grueling 18-month strike amid a battle with the newspaper’s owners, Block Communications.
An administrative law judge at the NLRB ruled last year that the Post-Gazette failed to bargain in good faith, and that it illegally imposed work conditions on the newsroom’s union, an affiliate of the NewsGuild-Communications Workers of America. The union says the company left workers with significantly higher health care costs, less vacation time and weaker job protections.
Read more: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/pittsburgh-post-gazette-strike-injunction_n_662273b7e4b0bf7f0137fa4a
This was Richard Scaife's RW loon-owned paper. Wish the union luck with this!
