Putting Submit-Gazette staff protest outdoors writer’s Duquesne Membership wedding ceremony reception

Putting Pittsburgh Submit-Gazette staff continued their spirited public marketing campaign this afternoon by protesting outdoors the writer’s Duquesne Membership wedding ceremony reception.

Starting round 3:30 p.m., staff and supporters gathered on the sidewalk outdoors the celebrated Downtown social membership, brandishing indicators and chanting criticisms in opposition to Writer John Block.

The strikers jeered as company, together with former government editor Keith Burris, made their method inside. One employee dressed as Santa Claus dropped coals in entrance of the membership’s entranceway, prompting workers to emerge from the constructing with brushes and shovels.

As we speak’s protest is the second time strikers have singled out Block as a supply of their frustration, having rallied outdoors his Shadyside residence final month.

Submit-Gazette staff within the printing, distribution, and adverts departments walked out early October in response to a brand new medical health insurance plan they are saying considerably raises their out-of-pocket funds. A majority of reporters joined with them twelve days later.

The dueling events reopened negotiations for the primary time this week, however each side say little progress was made.

In a press launch issued yesterday, Submit-Gazette administration accused the strikers of partaking in “illegal actions” within the type of threats, vandalism, and harassment, which the corporate says it has reported to the police.