By Charles McCollester President Trump’s government shutdown was a cheap, tawdry, fear-mongering piece of blackmail designed to assert his will over Congress and possibly impose a shameful border wall, even if it […]
Why Pitt’s Grad Students Need a Union
By Neil Cosgrove When graduate students at the University of Wisconsin successfully formed a union in 1969 they made headlines because such an entity had never been seen before. But now, according […]
Breakfast and More
By Bette McDevitt The Battle of Homestead Foundation (BHF), also known as the Pumphouse Gang, has breakfast every Wednesday at Eat’n Park at the Waterfront. It’s not lost on anyone that this […]
O’Hara Rally Calls On Chapel Harbor Luxury Developers To Stop Wage Theft
BY KRYSTLE M. KNIGHT Pittsburgh, PA – At 11:00 AM on Saturday, April 14th, immigrant workers and their supporters held a demonstration outside of Chapel Harbor at the Water in O’Hara Township […]
Fed Up P-G Journalists Challenge Paper’s Owner
By Neil Cosgrove It isn’t nostalgic feelings for print journalism that convinces us the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette must hold onto its 150 reporters, photographers, artists, page designers, web and copy editors, and pay […]
The 1892 Battle of Homestead: Actor Rylance Calls it “A Story Worthy Of Shakespeare”
May 3, 2017 By Lynne Squilla In 2003, Mark Rylance, world-respected Shakespearean actor and then-Artistic Director of the Globe Theater in London, was in Pittsburgh to perform “Twelfth Night.” He was also […]
Public Letter from Martin Esquivel Hernandez
This letter was read at the May 1/May Day Rally and March in Pittsburgh in front of the ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) building located on the South Side. “First off, […]
Duquesne Administration Continues to Defy NLRB and Catholic Social Teaching
May 5, 2017 By Neil Cosgrove The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) has, once again, ruled against the Duquesne University administration, telling it to cease nearly five years of stonewalling and begin […]
Is Duquesne University Religiously Exempt from Bargaining with Faculty?
By Neil Cosgrove This piece originally appeared in the May 2015 of the NewPeople in-print publication. Update to come in the May 2017 issues of the NewPeople. In refusing to bargain […]
“A Day Without Women” Exposes Economic Inequality
March 18, 2017 By Mollie March-Steinman On March 8th, 2017, people around the world participated in the “Day Without a Woman” general strike, which called for women to show their solidarity by […]
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