JD Vance Crosses Picket Line With Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Op-Ed | EUROtoday

Vice presidential candidate Sen. JD Vance (Ohio) crossed a digital picket line by publishing an opinion piece within the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette on Thursday, in response to the union whose employees are on strike on the newspaper.

Jon Schleuss, president of the NewsGuild-CWA, advised HuffPost that there was no excuse for Vance, the operating mate of former President Donald Trump, not to pay attention to the strike that simply entered its third yr.

“JD Vance has crossed a very obvious picket line by striking Americans,” Schleuss mentioned. “And JD Vance is a scab just like anybody else who crosses a picket line.”

Early Thursday, the Post-Gazette ran a bit below Vance’s byline entitled “Kamala Harris’ prejudice against Catholics,” wherein he criticized the Democratic nominee for skipping the Al Smith dinner final week to marketing campaign. The dinner historically incorporates a roast of each candidates and advantages Catholic charities; Trump attended and mentioned a bunch of nasty stuff.

Vance’s piece doesn’t seem to have run in every other publications. Beneath his byline, it reads: “Special to the Post-Gazette.”

The Trump marketing campaign didn’t instantly reply Thursday when requested how the op-ed took place and whether or not Vance was conscious of the strike. The Ohio senator visited putting auto employees final yr on a picket line in Toledo.

Workers on the Post-Gazette have been on strike since October 2022 in a long-running battle with proprietor Block Communications.

The National Labor Relations Board, the federal company that enforces collective bargaining regulation, has discovered that the corporate didn’t discount in good religion and illegally imposed new working circumstances, leaving staff with larger well being care prices and fewer trip time. The NLRB lately went to federal court docket searching for an injunction to pressure the corporate to the bargaining desk.

Striking journalists from the paper have maintained their very own strike publication, the Pittsburgh Union Progress, and requested different journalists to not cross the picket line by performing work for the Post-Gazette.

Schleuss mentioned the picket line applies not solely to skilled reporters and editors however to contributors like Vance, whether or not they’re paid for his or her items or not.

“You can deliver that message to any other publication,” he mentioned of writing an opinion piece. “Don’t go into work for the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, don’t click on the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, don’t share articles from the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.”