Post-Gazette Workers Announce Launch of PAPER

After triumphing in their years-long battle for their rights, CWA members at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (PG) learned last month that owners were shutting the entire paper down, effective May 3, in retaliation. Having organized with many of the same community supporters who fought alongside them in their strike, last week members of the Newspaper Guild of Pittsburgh (TNG-CWA Local 38061) launched the Pittsburgh Alliance for People-Empowered Reporting (PAPER). PAPER exists to research and explore alternatives to the Block-owned PG that would serve as a source of communication and connection that reflects the needs of working-class people in the region.

The group has already raised more than $20,000, mostly in small donations from individual supporters—many of them recurring. Together, workers and community supporters are looking into cooperatives, non-profits, and other worker-centered business models. Click here to donate to PAPER and its fight for worker-centered journalism in Pittsburgh. 

Hundreds of members and supporters have attended PAPER meetings in the past few weeks. They are asking supporters near and far to sign up here to volunteer to phone bank for PAPER, record supportive videos, and further organize for worker-centered journalism.

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This post originally appeared on cwa-union.org.