Pittsburgh strikers’ right to picket affirmed, again, in court ruling

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The Pennsylvania Superior Court has ruled that striking union workers at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette were legally allowed to picket on company property and did not violate labor law by conducting pickets on Pittsburgh’s South Side.

The decision by a three-judge panel filed Wednesday (July 31) is the latest in a string of legal losses by the company, which has been cited by the National Labor Relations Board for a series of unfair labor practices before and during a strike by five unions that began in October 2022. 

The company appealed a decision by the Allegheny County Common Pleas Court that denied its request for an injunction to end picketing at a warehouse it uses two nights a week on the city’s South Side to distribute newspapers using replacement workers.

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