WTH is happening in Pittsburgh?

According to an analysis done by Payday Report of bylines and interviews with Post-Gazette reporters, nearly ⅔ of the union has crossed the picket line (with almost half of all reporters doing so). Many reporters, particularly younger reporters, have found jobs at other publications as the strike’s likelihood of success looks small and moved away from Pittsburgh./

Currently, the union can only maintain pickets for 2 hours a day as approximately two dozen reporters remain on strike from about 85 reporters who were members of the union at the beginning of the strike. Pittsburgh Post-Gazette union chair Andrew Goldstein has privately acknowledged to local labor supporters that the strike is a “disaster.”

https://paydayreport.com/2-3rd-of-p...french-embassy-french-ski-instructors-strike/

 

I don’t like seeing the douchebags win. But it appears that the preparation for a work action was not there, it was a rash decision or both.

 

Union leadership called an ill-conceived strike and I don't see how the remaining diehards still on strike can save face and bring this to an end. Four months in and they are bleeding out financially.

 

Saturday, March 18, will be the start of sixth month of the strike. I never thought it would go on this long and with this level of indifference.

 

So, the current answer to the thread title is, “Not much.”

 

Back in 2004-05, The (Youngstown) Vindicator strike lasted from Thanksgiving Eve to August, and the newsroom employees settled for the same raise they were offered when they walked out. Several strikers resigned (and weren't replaced) and 3/4ths of the guild's negotiating committee either quit or were laid off within weeks of the settlement.

 

We accepted Gannett’s unconditional offer in February 1997, 20 months after the strike began
I was offered my job back in June 1998
Time is the friend of management

 

I can hear Harry Caray now " Ah one, ah two ..."

 

Jonathan Salant, recently fired D.C. reporter for the Star Ledger, just landed a similar gig at the Post Gazette. Striking newsroom journalists are very unhappy with his hiring.

 

According to Politico, he was laid off. Is that your understanding?
N.J. congressional delegation loses the only reporter covering it

 

Yes. The Star Ledger closed its D.C. bureau. It was the last NJ daily to have a D.C. bureau.

 

So fired wouldn't be the right word to explain why Jonathan Salant isn't working for the Star Ledger, right?