unions Archives - The Pitt News

Editorial | We support the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette strike

By The Pitt News Editorial Board • October 24, 2022

The owners of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette need to support their employees by giving them fair pay and health care.

Opinion | Minor League Baseball hits homerun for workers’ rights with new union representation

By Grant Van Robays, Staff Columnist • September 29, 2022

Minor league baseball players unionizing is a historic achievement for the sport and workers’ rights.

President Biden touts the strength of unions, labor at Labor Day event in West Mifflin

By Punya Bhasin, News Editor • September 6, 2022

In front of a crowd of about 100 members of a local United Steelworkers union in West Mifflin, President Joe Biden complimented organized labor on Labor Day and called out “extreme MAGA republicans” for putting democracy at stake.

Editorial | Amazon needs to care about its workers

By The Pitt News Editorial Board • April 7, 2022

Amazon should care more about the well-being of their workers rather than invest money in union-busting.

Editorial | The Amos Hall Starbucks unionization is a great step forward

By The Pitt News Editorial Board • March 17, 2022

The move to unionize is important, particularly for student workers, as it helps students be able to call out issues in future careers.

Editorial | Happy strikesgiving to UPMC workers

By The Pitt News Editorial Board • November 19, 2021

We fully back employees’ push for better treatment, and condemn the insultingly low value to which UPMC holds its employees.

Pittsburgh’s Labor Day legacy continues to evolve

By Maureen Hartwell, Staff Writer • September 2, 2019

For the past 37 years, Pittsburgh has hosted the largest Labor Day parade in the United States — Monday’s parade drew an estimated 50,000 marchers Downtown.

Editorial: Keep a local focus on special election

By The Pitt News Staff • March 13, 2018

When President Donald Trump appeared at a Pittsburgh airplane hangar Saturday night, his role, ostensibly, was to pump up the assembled crowds to vote for Rick Saccone, the Republican running in today’s...

Judge temporarily blocks Seattle law allowing Uber and Lyft drivers to unionize

By David Gutman | The Seattle Times (TNS) • April 4, 2017

SEATTLE — A federal judge in Seattle has temporarily blocked the city’s first-in-the-nation law that attempts to allow Uber, Lyft and taxi drivers to unionize. The law, passed in 2015, had been scheduled...