Support striking workers. Read the Pittsburgh Union Progress.
Support striking workers. Read the Pittsburgh Union Progress.
High Risk
Name: Allan Block
Occupation: Chairman and CEO, Block Communications, Inc.
Status: Union Buster
Allan Block just so happens to be one of the country’s most ruthless union busters. He refuses to settle a strike at his newspaper in Pittsburgh over pennies on the dollar, and would rather spend millions on out-of-town, union busting attorneys to squash workers’ rights.
Instead of bargaining in good faith with journalists who won his newspaper a Pulitzer Prize, Allan breaks federal labor law and sits in Toledo with his fortune, unwilling to do what’s ethical.
Union workers at the Post-Gazette are fighting for a fair contract. Allan is fighting to break them.
Bargain in good faith with your workers and stop trying to bust the unions!
The workers who are responsible for designing, printing, distributing, advertising sales, accounts receivable, and content creation for the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette are on strike. They have not had a pay raise in over 15 years and went on strike over the illegal, unilateral cuts to their healthcare made by the Block family -- the Toledo-based, millionaire owners of the paper.