A federal appeals court panel on Monday ruled in favor of striking journalists at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, possibly heralding an end to a long and bitter labor dispute that led newspaper staffers to walk the picket line for more than three years.
While it is not clear yet whether the Post-Gazette will appeal the ruling, the decision by three judges on the U.S. 3rd Circuit Court of Appeals stated that the Post-Gazette bargained in bad faith while trying to agree on a new contract and marks a major victory for the diminished Newspaper Guild of Pittsburgh.
The union framed the decision as one ordering the newspaper to “repeal more than five years of worker rights violations” and compensate the strikers.
