Four years after workers at a Starbucks store in upstate New York became the first to unionize, hundreds of outlets followed – defying intense resistance from the coffee chain. What happened next?

Publications assess themselves by all kinds of metrics — number of page views, time readers spent on pages, advertising revenue, social media followers. Here at the Pittsburgh Union Progress, we’ve counted, and counted on, heart beats. Launched as the first strike “newspaper” of the digital age by publishing its first stories two days after the […]

The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette on Wednesday asked for a stay of a federal court’s order that the company restore journalists’ health care coverage, pending an additional appeal it said it will make — for a rehearing of a recent related ruling in the journalists’ favor by the same court in the long-running Pittsburgh news strike. On […]

More than 2,000 Starbucks employees are on the picket line as politicians like Zohran Mamdani back striking workers

More than 2,000 Starbucks employees are on the picket line as politicians like Zohran Mamdani back striking workers

Starbucks union threatens to expand campaign as politicians like Zohran Mamdani back striking workers

A man walked through the front door of Cardamone’s Salon in Regent Square shortly before 6:30 Tuesday night. The outside breeze sent his long blondish hair flowing. He flipped it out of his face, Fabio-like. A receptionist looked up. She’d been told to expect him. “We should have balloons here,” she said. This was a […]

The Newspaper Guild of Pittsburgh’s most momentous gathering since the formation of a strike picket line more than three years ago began last week in the manner of all big strike meetings – with the arrival of a half dozen boxes of pizza. Pepperoni, plain, and a vegetarian option. Strikes run on pizza. Turns out […]

Unfair labor practice strike on ‘red cup day’ in over 25 cities comes amid stagnant negotiations with coffee chain

Unfair labor practice strike on ‘red cup day’ in over 25 cities comes amid stagnant negotiations with coffee chain

Monday started out as one of those cold, dreary Pittsburgh Mondays that you have to plod through as if it were sticky and slick with mud. The previous night’s Steelers’ game, a loss, made it worse. Yinzer folks were certain to be groggy and grouchy. By 9:48, Zack Tanner had dragged himself out of bed […]

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit on Monday morning ruled for the journalists of the Newspaper Guild of Pittsburgh in the federal case behind their more than three-year strike at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. The three-judge panel hearing the case ruled against the PG’s petition for a review of its order this spring […]

Workers at the SunTrapp – opened in 1973 in Salt Lake City – claim the shuttering was a ‘stunt’ to prevent unionization Salt Lake City’s oldest and longest-running LGBTQ+ bar has closed, with workers claiming the shuttering was a “stunt” to prevent unionization. The SunTrapp, widely considered the oldest LGBTQ+ bar in Utah was founded in 1973 and is one of the few safe havens for the community. It shut on 31 October after workers pushed to unionize. Continue reading...

Key figures accused of harassment, bullying and attacks as US employees work without pay to keep services running

Starbucks Workers United voted to authorize open-ended strike if deal with company is not reached by 13 November

Richard Hooker Jr is running to replace Trump ally Sean O’Brien as president of the Teamsters International union

Union says world’s largest coffee chain engaged in bad faith bargaining and stonewalled over contract

Union says world’s largest coffee chain engaged in bad faith bargaining and stonewalled over contract

Hundreds of thousands of employees remain unpaid as second-longest US shutdown stretches into fourth week

Nearly three-month strike includes 3,200 machinists at plants where military aircraft and weapons are developed

Anxiety and economic stress among federal employees as Republicans and Democrats remain deadlocked on bill

Strike was set to begin later today if union did not reach agreement on new contract with Broadway League

Late on Saturday we heard that nearly 7 million people attended No Kings rallies across the United States. We attended two in Pittsburgh on Saturday, and this is what we saw: several thousand folks holding signs, a dozen person-sized chickens, a walking banana, several upright and puffy frogs, a polar bear followed by a bald […]

Late on Saturday we heard that nearly 7 million people attended No Kings rallies across the United States. We attended two in Pittsburgh on Saturday, and this is what we saw: several thousand folks holding signs, a dozen person-sized chickens, a walking banana, several upright and puffy frogs, a polar bear followed by a bald […]

Unions are battling in court to halt firings and ensure workers retain their collective bargaining rights As Donald Trump continues his drive to cull the federal workforce and consolidate his power, labor unions have emerged as some of his staunchest opponents. Unions are battling the administration in federal courtrooms nationwide, after filing dozens of lawsuits to try to halt attempts to shed hundreds of thousands of government employees, strip collective bargaining rights from over a million workers, and gut some federal agencies. Continue reading...