Your help needed to support strikers in 2-year battle

Pittsburgh, PA – A call for financial aid to help union brothers and sisters from four unions on strike for two years at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette here comes on the heels of some promising news last week.

The National Labor Relations Board filed in U.S. District Court for an injunction against the newspaper that could potentially put members of the Newspaper Guild Local 38061, Typographical Union Local 14827, Mailers Local 14842 and Pressmen Local 24M-9N back to work and make them whole for back wages and benefits.

YOUR HELP IS NEEDED
But in the meantime, striking unionists need help to pay for financial assistance, transportation needs, physical and mental health care needs, rent, college loans and keep food in the refrigerator.

Please consider making a donation by going to: https://www.unionprogress.com/donate/ or sending a check to The NewsGuild-CWA, 501 Third St. NW, 6th Floor, Washington DC 20001, Att: Elyse Endlich.

To continue serving their readers, the unions are publishing an online daily newsletter, Pittsburgh Union Progress, https://www.unionprogress.com.

INJUNCTION DETAILED
The request by the unions asks a federal judge to stop the newspaper from breaking federal Labor law and to order the company to immediately:

• Bargain collectively and in good faith with the unions, upon their request, for contracts and health insurance benefits.
• Rescind any or all of the unilateral changes that the company unlawfully implemented in July 2020 and “restore, honor and continue the terms” of the parties’ 2014-17 collective-bargaining agreement. That would include the company making all prospective increased health care insurance payments required by the Western Pennsylvania Teamsters and Employers’ Welfare Fund, in accordance with the
  December 2019 arbitration award on this issue.
• Make whole the affected employee for any direct or foreseeable financial harms caused by the loss of health benefits, including prospective reimbursement for out-of-pocket medical and substitute health insurance expenses, suffered as a result of the company’s unlawful bad-faith bargaining and unilateral changes.