The Pittsburgh Union Progress is the publication of the striking workers against the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. It covers the labor dispute and other community news while serving as a voice for the...

An administrative law judge from the National Labor Relations Board handed journalists at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette a major victory Thursday by ruling the newspaper didn’t negotiate in good faith,...

Hundreds of protesters blocked traffic for several hours at Forbes Avenue and Bigelow Boulevard on the University of Pittsburgh’s Oakland campus Monday evening to protest a series of speakers invited...

His namesake production company still cranks out shows, academics revere him and pop culture still can't get enough of Mister Rogers.

Exactly 18 months and 1½ hours into their unfair labor practices strike at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, a small and tired but still-hanging-in-there group of unionized newsroom workers gathered...

EAST PALESTINE, Ohio — One day in mid-October of last year, Lonnie Miller sat at a small table in her kitchen and thought about the issues that had come to dominate her life: the nightmares about...

About 1,200 union janitors in Pittsburgh have ratified what they called a “historic” contract that will help Pennsylvania set the standard for tens of thousands of commercial cleaning workers across...

Pittsburgh Pride will show “No Fear” this weekend as the city kicks off Pride Month and marks the 50th anniversary of Pittsburgh’s first Pride Parade and Pride Week, held in 1973. Pittsburgh Pride...

Read this guide to learn about news outlets and media organizations across the Pittsburgh region reporting on local issues.

The Pittsburgh Union Progress has five stories that have been named finalists in the Press Club of Western Pennsylvania’s 59th Golden Quill contest. This from just the first 2½ months of existence of...

The Pittsburgh Classic Movie Club is hosting three screenings of golden-era films in Munhall over the next few weeks.

Union workers at Pittsburgh Regional Transit will get raises of 12.75% over the next four years, plus bonuses of up to $4,000 if they worked through the COVID-19 pandemic, under a four-year contract...

When Chris Giles met a certain girl his freshman year at Seton Hill University, he was swiftly drawn to her for a myriad of reasons. “I respected her game. That drew my attention first,” Giles said...

Monday's bargaining session at Downtown's Omni William Penn Hotel was the first time both sides had met in person since September 2020.

Striking veteran Post-Gazette journalist and Newspaper Guild of Pittsburgh first vice president Ed Blazina was found not guilty of criminal trespass/simple trespasser for placing a “Solidarity” yard...

Aditi Sridhar had the rare opportunity to serve as a trophy presenter during Sunday's Academy Awards ceremony.

About 45 minutes into the United States’ World Cup game against Iran, someone opened a glass garage door that serves as the front wall of the Bulldog Pub in Morningside. Cool air wafted into the...

An assault on striking Post-Gazette workers Saturday night marked an escalation in a labor dispute that’s “getting more and more close to a full eruption” because of the newspaper’s refusal to...

The Communications Workers of America sent out the following news release Thursday about the Pittsburgh news workers strike as it continues for four other unions: On Wednesday, Teamsters Local...

The Monongahela Incline will resume carrying riders between Station Square and Mount Washington at 5:30 a.m. Monday after an $8.1 million upgrade that took twice as long as expected due to supply...

An administrative law judge from the National Labor Relations Board handed journalists at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette a major victory Thursday by ruling the newspaper didn’t negotiate in good faith,...

Seeking to be heard about strikes that started more than a month ago and seemed no nearer to being settled any time soon, striking Pittsburgh Post-Gazette employees from the newsroom as well as the...

You’ve probably seen the clip. It was all over cable news. There’s Republican Kevin McCarthy walking up the aisle of the House chamber after yet another failed attempt to garner enough votes to...

They say April showers bring May flowers. Well, one certain Rose couldn’t quite wait for the month to flip, so, on one of the final days of April, she blossomed in a performance you could say was one...

A classmate of Ava Leroux’s once told her that they watched a video of Leroux’s father beating up another man. Leroux took it in stride. “I said, ‘Yeah, I’ve seen it a million times. He was a big...

The bullet entered John Vargo’s chest between the second and third ribs on his right side, then traveled downward, slicing through his aorta and shredding portions of both lungs before lodging in the...

The Fort Worth Star-Telegram strike commenced Monday at 6 a.m. with 91% support among Fort Worth NewsGuild members.

Khiryn Boyd is a Western Pa. kid now, but it wasn’t long ago that he called California home. Boyd and his family moved to the North Allegheny school district from Bakersfield, Calif., in 2019 when...

When Newspaper Guild of Pittsburgh-represented journalists went on an unfair labor practice strike at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette on Oct. 18, 2022, the union published its demands to end the strike....

WASHINGTON — Ten of the Post-Gazette newsroom workers who’ve been on strike for nearly five months drove this week to the nation’s capital with one specific goal: to stand on a sidewalk outside...

Democrats swept all three of Tuesday’s special elections for the Pennsylvania House of Representatives, delivering the party a majority in the chamber for the first time in more than a decade. The...

As striking Pittsburgh Post-Gazette workers readied to take a few days off from picketing, leafleting and other strike actions for the holidays, several unions jumped on board workers’ strike...

The people who write, photograph, and sell ads for this website have been on strike from the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette since October 2022. We are simply demanding the PG provide affordable health care...

Solidarity can take all kinds of forms.

Hours before unionized Starbucks workers were scheduled to attend an event Thursday recognizing them as City Paper’s People of the Year 2022 in Labor, Starbucks organizer Tori Tambellini reached out...

Pittsburgh Regional Transit is on pace to pay more than $5 million in unscheduled overtime to bus and light rail operators in 2022 for the second time in three years. Because of a chronic shortage of...

The 30-minute documentary "Freedom House Ambulance — The First Responders" premieres Thursday at 8 p.m. on WQED.

William Scroggins’ name turns up in only a few places — newspaper advertisements published in the 1800s, census reports, the March 1864 muster roll of a sidewheel steamboat named Nansemond and a...

TOLEDO, Ohio — Zack Tanner, the lanky 6-foot-4 president of the Newspaper Guild of Pittsburgh, was squeezed into the back seat of a green Subaru headed eastbound on the Ohio Turnpike just outside of...

Construction of the new $1.4 billion terminal at Pittsburgh International Airport is not only good for travelers but also necessary for the Biden administration’s infrastructure program to be...

This is the full text of a Newspaper Guild of Pittsburgh press release, titled, “AI Will Not Scab Us: Newspaper Guild of Pittsburgh denounces Post-Gazette’s Use of Artificial Intelligence, File...

Donte Taylor and Terel Searcy don't get the same acclaim some of their teammates do, but nobody is more vital to Westinghouse's success.

Pennsylvania has reached a formal agreement with Norfolk Southern Railroad to make $200 million worth of station improvements and begin a second daily Amtrak passenger trip from Pittsburgh to New...

Assistant U.S. Attorney Eric Olshan is poised to become the next U.S. attorney for the Western District of Pennsylvania after President Biden nominated him for the post on Monday. The nomination was...

What do striking newsroom workers do on Saturdays? Here’s a photo of about 20 of them at PNC Park savoring the Pittsburgh Pirates vs. the St. Louis Cardinals game, which the Pirates won, thanks to...

The sun shone down on Broad Street in Sewickley Tuesday evening. The most prominent structure on the street, nicknamed “the gateway” into the borough, was the Herbst House, a three-story Victorian...

The hits keep coming for Norfolk Southern over the Feb. 3 derailment that released chemicals that affected the air, land and water in East Palestine, Ohio. The Western Beaver School District, which...

James Greene arrived about an hour early for his 5:30 p.m. Monday shift at the Penn Center East Starbucks store in Wilkins. A dozen fellow unionized baristas, union organizers and supporters joined...

WASHINGTON — On a cloudy Tuesday in the nation’s capital, more than 60 union members and supporters showed up to support Ashley Murray, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette’s Washington bureau chief, at the...

The Newspaper Guild of Pittsburgh brought two more proposals to representatives of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Tuesday. It was the parties’ third bargaining meeting since the guild went on strike...

Both Fettermans have small roles in "The Pale Blue Eye," a Christian Bale-starring gothic thriller making its Netflix debut Friday.

Carl Redwood Jr., long known for his work as a community organizer, social worker, socialist and social justice advocate in Pittsburgh, has announced his candidacy to represent Allegheny County...

Andrew DiDonato saw the signs. Maybe they weren’t so understated when the Grove City coach was recruiting then Moon standout linebacker Ben Bladel — a four-year starter and three-time all-state...

How long is 500 days?a) 12,000 hours.b) 720,000 minutes.c) 43.2 million seconds.d) Too long for the workers to be on strike at Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.e) All of the above. For those of you who have...

For Meryl Kirshner Ainsman, Oct. 27, 2018, began with the sound of sirens cutting through the air and frantic knocks on her front door.  Ainsman was in her kitchen preparing breakfast with her...

In the summer of 2017, Jimmy Greene drove westbound on one of those long stretches of Route 22 where only a few lighted road signs illuminate the darkness. It was around 4 a.m. Greene had been on the...

This story was updated Friday at 5:56 p.m. Pittsburgh’s Bloomfield neighborhood finally may be able to address safety concerns at one of the city’s more dangerous intersections: the five-way juncture...

Cassie Seth, associate head coach of West Liberty University’s women’s basketball team, made the suggestion. When Hilltoppers head coach Kyle Cooper then considered what he described as her “outside...

This story first appeared in the Pennsylvania Capital-Star. During a visit to Pittsburgh on Tuesday, Vice President Kamala Harris announced that the Biden administration is dedicating $5.8 billion of...

Pittsburgh and five other municipalities from southwestern Pennsylvania will request inspection reports on rail infrastructure, part of a wave of increased scrutiny following the February derailment...

For anyone documenting the Pittsburgh news workers strike of 2022-23, this was a historic scene: members of all five unions gathering together for the first time since October. About 75 striking...

Shortly after 5 p.m. on Wednesday, Starbucks workers and organizers in Pittsburgh began celebrating. During a phone conversation, you could hear their excited voices in the background. Moments...

One of the scariest moments in NFL history took place Monday night, and a McKees Rocks native was at the center of it. Damar Hamlin, a Central Catholic graduate and former Pitt star who is in his...

Pittsburgh will formally challenge the tax-exempt status of more than two dozen properties owned by some of the region’s largest nonprofits, setting up what could be a massive legal showdown over...

Pennsylvania Democrats appear to be in an Allegheny County state of mind. Party leaders rallied Sunday afternoon around their candidates for the upcoming Feb. 7 special elections to fill three state...

It’s not every day you wake up and eat pierogies for breakfast, but for me that was the case Saturday morning. I visited the cozy Mary, Queen of Peace Parish on the South Side, where members were...

Anniversaries took center stage Saturday on Devonshire Street. One was worth celebrating. Amy Davis of the Baltimore Sun Guild and her husband, Bob Cronan, a former Sun employee and guild member,...

Some items that fell off my laptop after I dropped it trying to jump over a high hurdle … • More than 400. That’s how many WPIAL and City League athletes competed at the PIAA track and field champi...

When Katie Trombetta began working as a nurse at UPMC Presbyterian in 2020, she stepped into a fully staffed medical surgical unit. She had just graduated from Waynesburg University and was excited...

White supremacist messaging was found in several Pittsburgh neighborhoods in the lead-up to the Pittsburgh synagogue shooting trial and after testimony began on Tuesday. Most recently, about 15...

A kerfuffle that played out on Twitter resulted in a shoutout from the White House to the striking Pittsburgh news workers, as well as others involved in a wave of labor actions in the media indust...

PNC Park game day employees love their jobs, even if those jobs don’t always love them back. They are on their feet out in the elements for hours, ready to help fans on the cold rainy spring evenings...

The second season of "Mayor of Kingstown" was shot throughout Western Pennsylvania and will premiere its first episode Sunday on Paramount+.

U.S. Rep. Summer Lee, D-Swissvale, kicked off her reelection bid Thursday night by addressing a number of criticisms often leveled at progressive political leaders such as herself: They can’t get...

Friday will be momentous and nerve-wracking for the family and friends of John Schalcosky, founder of the popular Facebook page “The Odd, Mysterious & Fascinating History of Pittsburgh.” Surgeons...

Late one Saturday night in April last year about 20 of us — strikers and supporters — converged on a Pittsburgh Post-Gazette distribution site in Monroeville to set up a picket line. We arrived...

INDIANA, Pa. — West Liberty men’s basketball coach Ben Howlett wanted to be clear. As if the statement his Hilltoppers made in holding top-seeded IUP to 30.2% shooting from the field, while Latrobe...

With sparkling wine and Shop ‘n Save marble cake outside the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette’s Clinton printing plant, striking news workers on Thursday celebrated Patty Haluka’s bittersweet resignation from...

We’re striking at a newspaper in part by running a strike “paper,” so we get fighting fire with fire. We approve of a new billboard in Armstrong County, which until now hasn’t been something you’d...