Journalists joined the strike Tuesday at noon, vowing to support the other workers and to call attention to their own unfair labor claims. Workers in the Post-Gazette's printing, design, distribution and ads departments have been picketing the company's Northside office for two weeks, after turning down a health coverage proposal that would impose significant premium raises. The power is in our hands, not the Blocks. “We’re fighting for better wages and affordable healthcare for every single worker at the Post-Gazette. “Newspaper Guild journalists have joined this picket line and withheld our labor alongside our union siblings as we escalate our fight to have our collectively bargained contract restored and look toward our next contract to secure journalism in the Pittsburgh region,” said Newspaper Guild of Pittsburgh president Zack Tanner in a press release. The Newspaper Guild of Pittsburgh issued a press statement Wednesday morning calling out the company for undermining its strike efforts, and stating members would begin picketing its office. "Only through the assistance of a third party will the jobs of the workers - and maybe even the future of the company - survive." "It is our firm belief that if the Post-Gazette fails to distribute a print product for any length of time it would cause the end of the Post-Gazette," says Vodenichar, president and publisher of Butler Eagle. President Ron Vodenichar issued a lengthy statement Thursday saying, by keeping a product on the shelves, he's helping the Pittsburgh paper's chances of surviving beyond the strike. The Butler Eagle's president and publisher has defended his company's decision to print the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette while its workers strike in the face of calls from union members to extend their pickets to its Butler County office.
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