At striking Pittsburgh news workers’ hearing, less is more, and there’s more to come

The dozen or so striking workers sitting in Judge Cathy Bisson’s federal courtroom Wednesday stared for hours in the direction of a massive painting of Downtown Pittsburgh as seen from the Rachel Carson Bridge. The artwork looms above Bissoon and includes so much detail that at times it seems like a photograph. You look at it and wonder, is this real?

Some of the testimony heard in the courtroom begged the same question. For example: Is a wage increase really a “raise” if the pay is increased and yet the employee ends up with less money? Perhaps we should all go back to school to learn how addition becomes subtraction.

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette workers in four unions have been on strike now for 27 months; the fate of workers in three of those unions was the focus of Wednesday’s hearing at the Joseph F. Weis Jr. U.S. Courthouse.

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