The Nation’s Longest Ongoing Strike Is Over—but the Battle Isn’t
Journalists at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette are ready to return to work.
After three years on strike, twenty-six employees of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette are preparing to return to work. But they might have an uphill battle before they step foot in the office.
The workers voted to end their strike on Thursday, after receiving a decision from the Third Circuit Court of Appeals that determined the Post-Gazette had been bargaining in bad faith and must offer compensation for its workers’-rights violations. The strike at the paper was the longest active strike in the country.
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