From Pittsburgh to Seattle, CWAers Stand in Solidarity with Striking Post-Gazette Members

 
Striking members of the Newspaper Guild of Pittsburgh, CWA Convention Delegates, and local supporters rally outside of the home of Pittsburgh Post-Gazette publisher and co-owner John Block on the evening of Tuesday, August 12. [Photo credit: Alexandra Wimley, member of TNG-CWA Local 38061, Pittsburgh Union Progress.]

CWA members across the country are coming together in a show of solidarity to support the strikers on America’s longest-running picket line. This month, CWAers raised more than $30,000 for striking Newspaper Guild of Pittsburgh (TNG-CWA Local 38061) members during the 80th CWA Convention in Pittsburgh. CWA members then showed the true meaning of solidarity when more than 150 CWA members and retirees, including CWA President Claude Cummings Jr., CWA District 2-13 Vice President Mike Davis, CWA District 3 Vice President Richard Honeycutt, and NewsGuild-CWA President Jon Schleuss, picketed the house of the newspaper’s owner, standing shoulder to shoulder with strikers.

CWA solidarity stretched all the way to the west coast, where Seattle Times Guild (TNG-CWA Local 37082) members took action to support Post-Gazette strikers. A board member and heiress of Block Communications Inc.—the struck Pittsburgh Post-Gazette’s parent company—lives in Seattle. So Guild members covered her neighborhood with 100 “Wanted” posters with her face on them.

You can share your support for striking workers of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette by buying a new strike solidarity t-shirt.

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This post originally appeared on cwa-union.org.