March 14, 2025
Striking production and advertising workers at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette have reached a deal to take a buyout from the newspaper's publisher, the Communications Workers of America announced Thursday, just weeks after the National Labor Relations Board lost its bid to restart bargaining between the paper and the workers' unions.
February 14, 2025
The publisher of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette will not be forced to return to bargaining with several unions representing its striking print production employees, after a federal judge ruled that the National Labor Relations Board had not convinced her that the publisher had bargained in bad faith.
February 10, 2025
A federal judge won't reinstate a brief stricken from the record in a dispute between the National Labor Relations Board and the publisher of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, saying Friday that the board had misinterpreted her courtroom's rules and procedures.
February 07, 2025
A federal judge cut out a brief that the National Labor Relations Board had filed in support of its proposed findings of fact in a long-running dispute with the publisher of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, but the agency said it was only following the judge's published practices and procedures when it filed.
January 21, 2025
The proposed contracts for the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette's production unions would have left workers at a disadvantage during the grievance process because they gave the newspaper publisher broad discretion, counsel for the National Labor Relations Board suggested during a federal court hearing Tuesday.
January 08, 2025
Offers the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette's publisher made to production employees' unions would have taken workers backwards or left them worse off than if they had no contracts at all, an attorney for the union testified Wednesday as part of the National Labor Relations Board's bid to force the parties back to bargaining.
December 19, 2024
National Labor Relations Board prosecutors and the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette have squared off in dueling briefs in Pennsylvania federal court over whether the newspaper bargained in bad faith with its workers' unions and whether it should be forced back to the bargaining table.
December 05, 2024
The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette should not have to cover its striking workers' healthcare costs as punishment for alleged bad-faith bargaining, the newspaper argued to a Pennsylvania federal judge, saying it already worked out its healthcare obligations with the workers' unions in 2020.
November 25, 2024
National Labor Relations Board prosecutors have updated their bid to compel the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette to bargain with its striking workers' unions and cover the workers' healthcare costs, telling a Pennsylvania federal judge that the record in this case and others against the newspaper support their request for an injunction.
October 28, 2024
A Pennsylvania federal judge on Monday told National Labor Relations Board attorneys to bolster their bid to force the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette's publishers back to the bargaining table with striking unions, pointing out the higher bar the U.S. Supreme Court recently set for obtaining injunctions against employers over unfair labor practices.