Turmoil at the Toledo Blade and Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

On Feb. 9, 2019, at about 10 p.m., near the end of a Saturday night shift, John Robinson Block, one of the owners of the Toledo Blade and Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, came into the Post-Gazette newsroom on the second floor of a building on Pittsburgh’s North Shore.

According to reporters present that night, he appeared both intoxicated and enraged. His young daughter was with him. He headed for a sign that the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Guild had hung prominently in the main hub of the newsroom, which read SHAME ON THE BLOCKS! in large black lettering, with the word shame in bright red. The guild has been involved in protracted contract negotiations with the Block family and has filed over a dozen complaints to the National Labor Relations Board over the past five years for unfair labor practices.

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