3 production unions, Post-Gazette reach strike settlement

[Omaha Steve]

Kris B. Mamula
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
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Mar 13, 2025 7:36 PM

The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette and its striking advertising and production workers have reached a settlement that gives 31 striking employees severance pay and other compensation in return for eliminating their jobs.

The newspaper’s mailers and typographical workers, represented by the Communications Workers of America, and the pressmen, represented by the Teamsters, will receive 26 weeks of severance pay, plus additional compensation for staff who were paid on a commission basis.

In February, a federal judge in Pittsburgh denied an emergency injunction sought by the National Labor Relations Board on behalf of the three unions. The injunction had asked the court to force the newspaper back to the bargaining table and require that striking workers be reimbursed for future medical expenses.

Contracts with the newspaper’s five unions expired in 2017 and workers walked off the job in October 2022 in a dispute over health care benefits. The strike has entered its 29th month.

FULL story: https://www.post-gazette.com/business/career-workplace/2025/03/13/pittsburgh-post-gazette-union-settlement-strike/stories/202503130112