On October 5th the U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette’s appeal of a ruling requiring the company to pay back its workers — members of the Newspaper Guild of Pittsburgh (TNG-CWA Local 38061) — for cuts to pay, illegally implemented increases in health care costs, and other unilateral changes to their working conditions.
The NewsGuild-CWA says millions of dollars are owed to current and former Post Gazette employees, and there are no further venues for appeal.
“I’ve actually lost count of the number of agencies, judges, courts, and other authorities that have told the Blocks that the workers were right and the multi-millionaires were wrong. Our members were the first to tell them—more than nine years ago now,” said Jon Schleuss, President of The NewsGuild-CWA. “It’s staggering to think how much money and time the company wasted on losing when that could have been spent on dignified working conditions and improving the caliber of local journalism. The Block family’s efforts to delay accountability are finished. We look forward to seeing justice served so that our award-winning journalists can continue to focus on holding power to account.”
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