Steve Mellon
@stevemellon412.bsky.social
Journalist currently on strike at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, now writing for the striker-produced Pittsburgh Union Progress.
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Starbucks workers are on strike. Chronic understaffing, unfair wages and hundreds of unfair labor practices pushed a 92% super-majority to walk out on Red Cup Day and beyond.
The Working People Podcast with @maximillianalvarez.bsky.social speaks with the baristas on taking an indefinite stand.
The Working People Podcast with @maximillianalvarez.bsky.social speaks with the baristas on taking an indefinite stand.
Facing unprecedented labor violations, Starbucks workers overwhelmingly agree to strike indefinitely
Unfair wages, chronic understaffing and hundreds of ULPs have led to a Starbucks Workers United super-majority vote to strike.
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November 17, 2025 at 12:24 PM
Starbucks workers are on strike. Chronic understaffing, unfair wages and hundreds of unfair labor practices pushed a 92% super-majority to walk out on Red Cup Day and beyond.
The Working People Podcast with @maximillianalvarez.bsky.social speaks with the baristas on taking an indefinite stand.
The Working People Podcast with @maximillianalvarez.bsky.social speaks with the baristas on taking an indefinite stand.
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The @pghguild.com's @stevemellon412.bsky.social has two important stories today: One about how his fellow strikers are feeling after Monday's court ruling in their favor, and another about the ongoing struggles and mutual support of people in East Palestine, Ohio: www.unionprogress.com
November 11, 2025 at 2:06 PM
The @pghguild.com's @stevemellon412.bsky.social has two important stories today: One about how his fellow strikers are feeling after Monday's court ruling in their favor, and another about the ongoing struggles and mutual support of people in East Palestine, Ohio: www.unionprogress.com
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BREAKING: We won!
Today the 3rd Circuit Court ordered the @post-gazette.com to restore our contract it illegally tore up 5 years ago. That’s our health care, PTO, right to a 40-hr. work week, short-term disability and so much more we’ve struck for 3+ years.
pghguild.com/2025/11/10/p...
Today the 3rd Circuit Court ordered the @post-gazette.com to restore our contract it illegally tore up 5 years ago. That’s our health care, PTO, right to a 40-hr. work week, short-term disability and so much more we’ve struck for 3+ years.
pghguild.com/2025/11/10/p...
November 10, 2025 at 5:48 PM
BREAKING: We won!
Today the 3rd Circuit Court ordered the @post-gazette.com to restore our contract it illegally tore up 5 years ago. That’s our health care, PTO, right to a 40-hr. work week, short-term disability and so much more we’ve struck for 3+ years.
pghguild.com/2025/11/10/p...
Today the 3rd Circuit Court ordered the @post-gazette.com to restore our contract it illegally tore up 5 years ago. That’s our health care, PTO, right to a 40-hr. work week, short-term disability and so much more we’ve struck for 3+ years.
pghguild.com/2025/11/10/p...
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The @pghguild.com strike paper's top story: The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit orders the PG to restore the striking journalists' contract, including its health care plan, and bargain a new one, and strikers are looking forward to returning to work: www.unionprogress.com/2025/11/10/t...
Third Circuit Court of Appeals rules for striking Pittsburgh journalists - Pittsburgh Union Progress
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit on Monday morning ruled for the journalists of the Newspaper Guild of Pittsburgh in the federal case behind their more than three-year strike at the Pit...
www.unionprogress.com
November 10, 2025 at 7:25 PM
The @pghguild.com strike paper's top story: The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit orders the PG to restore the striking journalists' contract, including its health care plan, and bargain a new one, and strikers are looking forward to returning to work: www.unionprogress.com/2025/11/10/t...
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Not every horror is modern! Amazing untold story in the Pittsburgh Union Progress by @stevemellon412.bsky.social about the hundreds of workers, mostly Black, who died building a West Virginia tunnel and were buried in unmarked graves almost a century ago. www.unionprogress.com/2025/08/28/a...
At Hawk’s Nest, hundreds of sickened workers died, then were hidden and forgotten; it wasn’t an accident - Pittsburgh Union Progress
Sam Ward spent the first few minutes of Wednesday, Feb. 15, 1933, trying to suck enough air into his lungs to keep himself alive. Most likely he was lying on a bed in a crudely built shack near a smal...
www.unionprogress.com
September 15, 2025 at 7:20 PM
Not every horror is modern! Amazing untold story in the Pittsburgh Union Progress by @stevemellon412.bsky.social about the hundreds of workers, mostly Black, who died building a West Virginia tunnel and were buried in unmarked graves almost a century ago. www.unionprogress.com/2025/08/28/a...
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Deepening the context of why we mark Labor Day,
@stevemellon412.bsky.social/Pittsburgh Union Progress traveled to West Virginia for the story of America’s deadliest workplace disaster & the hundreds of sickened workers who died, then were hidden & forgotten: www.unionprogress.com/2025/08/28/a...
@stevemellon412.bsky.social/Pittsburgh Union Progress traveled to West Virginia for the story of America’s deadliest workplace disaster & the hundreds of sickened workers who died, then were hidden & forgotten: www.unionprogress.com/2025/08/28/a...
At Hawk’s Nest, hundreds of sickened workers died, then were hidden and forgotten; it wasn’t an accident - Pittsburgh Union Progress
Sam Ward spent the first few minutes of Wednesday, Feb. 15, 1933, trying to suck enough air into his lungs to keep himself alive. Most likely he was lying on a bed in a crudely built shack near a smal...
www.unionprogress.com
August 29, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Deepening the context of why we mark Labor Day,
@stevemellon412.bsky.social/Pittsburgh Union Progress traveled to West Virginia for the story of America’s deadliest workplace disaster & the hundreds of sickened workers who died, then were hidden & forgotten: www.unionprogress.com/2025/08/28/a...
@stevemellon412.bsky.social/Pittsburgh Union Progress traveled to West Virginia for the story of America’s deadliest workplace disaster & the hundreds of sickened workers who died, then were hidden & forgotten: www.unionprogress.com/2025/08/28/a...
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Steelmaking deaths like the 2 this month at U.S. Steel’s Clairton plant were once almost routine.
Now, deadly explosions are big news, but construction/transport jobs are bigger killers.
A look at the worker safety landscape, then & now: www.publicsource.org/clairton-cok... @publicsource.org
Now, deadly explosions are big news, but construction/transport jobs are bigger killers.
A look at the worker safety landscape, then & now: www.publicsource.org/clairton-cok... @publicsource.org
Fatal explosions are big news, but construction, transportation jobs are now bigger killers
The Clairton Coke Works explosion killed 2 and injured 10. The tragedy highlights progress and lingering risks in U.S. workplace safety.
www.publicsource.org
August 29, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Steelmaking deaths like the 2 this month at U.S. Steel’s Clairton plant were once almost routine.
Now, deadly explosions are big news, but construction/transport jobs are bigger killers.
A look at the worker safety landscape, then & now: www.publicsource.org/clairton-cok... @publicsource.org
Now, deadly explosions are big news, but construction/transport jobs are bigger killers.
A look at the worker safety landscape, then & now: www.publicsource.org/clairton-cok... @publicsource.org
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Helluva @pghguild.com strike paper today, leading with
@stevemellon412.bsky.social digging into the Hawk's Nest Tunnel, America's worst workplace disaster you may not have heard about; a Labor Day Parade preview; and we have a new advertiser. Thanks,
@412foodrescue.bsky.social! unionprogress.com
@stevemellon412.bsky.social digging into the Hawk's Nest Tunnel, America's worst workplace disaster you may not have heard about; a Labor Day Parade preview; and we have a new advertiser. Thanks,
@412foodrescue.bsky.social! unionprogress.com
August 28, 2025 at 12:48 PM
Helluva @pghguild.com strike paper today, leading with
@stevemellon412.bsky.social digging into the Hawk's Nest Tunnel, America's worst workplace disaster you may not have heard about; a Labor Day Parade preview; and we have a new advertiser. Thanks,
@412foodrescue.bsky.social! unionprogress.com
@stevemellon412.bsky.social digging into the Hawk's Nest Tunnel, America's worst workplace disaster you may not have heard about; a Labor Day Parade preview; and we have a new advertiser. Thanks,
@412foodrescue.bsky.social! unionprogress.com
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The @pghguild.com strike paper's @stevemellon412.bsky.social covers an important story -- people dying on the job. Says a @steelworkers.bsky.social official, "On average, today alone, 14 workers in this country will not return after their shift." www.unionprogress.com/2025/08/23/t...
Trump budget cuts benefit corporations that value profits over worker lives and health - Pittsburgh Union Progress
We remember a moment in 2024 when a guy in a baggy suit surrounded himself with Pennsylvania workers wearing hard hats and promised to make things better for working-class people. The baggy suit guy w...
www.unionprogress.com
August 23, 2025 at 1:12 PM
The @pghguild.com strike paper's @stevemellon412.bsky.social covers an important story -- people dying on the job. Says a @steelworkers.bsky.social official, "On average, today alone, 14 workers in this country will not return after their shift." www.unionprogress.com/2025/08/23/t...
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PUP's @stevemellon412.bsky.social reports from the @aflcio.org Pittsburgh stop: "So when those days get hard and when you take those punches in your face, in your gut, in your back ... you remember that you have power. We are the movement of the now. We fight.” www.unionprogress.com/2025/07/22/a...
AFL-CIO message for workers: 'It’s easy to get discouraged, but we have something they don’t' - Pittsburgh Union Progress
People with money and power have now fixed things so that if you get killed at work and want the benefit of a proper and timely investigation into your demise, you must die during normal office hours....
www.unionprogress.com
July 22, 2025 at 1:04 PM
PUP's @stevemellon412.bsky.social reports from the @aflcio.org Pittsburgh stop: "So when those days get hard and when you take those punches in your face, in your gut, in your back ... you remember that you have power. We are the movement of the now. We fight.” www.unionprogress.com/2025/07/22/a...
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I fricken love the Pittsburgh Union Progress (the newspaper made by journalists on strike at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette) and I fricken love sister @kimkelly.bsky.social ❤️ ✊🏽
My colleague and comrade @stevemellon412.bsky.social has a write-up on @kimkelly.bsky.social's talk at the Mt. Lebanon Public Library last night! Thanks so much to Kim for letting @johnnysantapup.bsky.social talk about the @pghguild.com beforehand. www.unionprogress.com/2025/06/24/f...
'Fight Like Hell' author Kim Kelly shatters assumptions about working-class people, labor history - Pittsburgh Union Progress
We rolled into Monday concerned the world had gone a bit wobbly, with American bombs screaming down on Iranian nuclear facilities and news that we’re all about to fry in a giant atmospheric slow cooke...
www.unionprogress.com
June 27, 2025 at 2:36 AM
I fricken love the Pittsburgh Union Progress (the newspaper made by journalists on strike at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette) and I fricken love sister @kimkelly.bsky.social ❤️ ✊🏽
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My colleague and comrade @stevemellon412.bsky.social has a write-up on @kimkelly.bsky.social's talk at the Mt. Lebanon Public Library last night! Thanks so much to Kim for letting @johnnysantapup.bsky.social talk about the @pghguild.com beforehand. www.unionprogress.com/2025/06/24/f...
'Fight Like Hell' author Kim Kelly shatters assumptions about working-class people, labor history - Pittsburgh Union Progress
We rolled into Monday concerned the world had gone a bit wobbly, with American bombs screaming down on Iranian nuclear facilities and news that we’re all about to fry in a giant atmospheric slow cooke...
www.unionprogress.com
June 24, 2025 at 2:55 PM
My colleague and comrade @stevemellon412.bsky.social has a write-up on @kimkelly.bsky.social's talk at the Mt. Lebanon Public Library last night! Thanks so much to Kim for letting @johnnysantapup.bsky.social talk about the @pghguild.com beforehand. www.unionprogress.com/2025/06/24/f...
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🚨 New @therealnews.com: An update on the longest ongoing strike in the US
After 2.5 yrs on strike at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, @pghguild.com members are the last ones holding the line. I speak w/ 3 strikers about where things stand w/ the strike & how you can help
therealnews.com/an-update-on...
After 2.5 yrs on strike at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, @pghguild.com members are the last ones holding the line. I speak w/ 3 strikers about where things stand w/ the strike & how you can help
therealnews.com/an-update-on...
May 28, 2025 at 5:07 PM
🚨 New @therealnews.com: An update on the longest ongoing strike in the US
After 2.5 yrs on strike at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, @pghguild.com members are the last ones holding the line. I speak w/ 3 strikers about where things stand w/ the strike & how you can help
therealnews.com/an-update-on...
After 2.5 yrs on strike at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, @pghguild.com members are the last ones holding the line. I speak w/ 3 strikers about where things stand w/ the strike & how you can help
therealnews.com/an-update-on...
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“It’s extremely important that companies can’t do what the Post-Gazette is trying to do… If we have to be the last people to draw that line in the sand… so be it. We’ve been here this long, there’s no reason to go away now.”
@pghguild.com
@pghguild.com
An update on the longest ongoing strike in the US: 'Some things don't change at the Post-Gazette'
“It's extremely important that companies can't do what the Post-Gazette is trying to do… If we have to be the last people to draw that line in the sand… so be it. We've been here this long, there's no...
therealnews.com
May 28, 2025 at 4:55 PM
“It’s extremely important that companies can’t do what the Post-Gazette is trying to do… If we have to be the last people to draw that line in the sand… so be it. We’ve been here this long, there’s no reason to go away now.”
@pghguild.com
@pghguild.com
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We thank the Park Center for Independent Media at @ithacacollege.bsky.social for this honor and congratulate our fellow award recipients @stevemellon412.bsky.social, @maximillianalvarez.bsky.social and @jewishcurrents.bsky.social
April 9, 2025 at 5:44 PM
We thank the Park Center for Independent Media at @ithacacollege.bsky.social for this honor and congratulate our fellow award recipients @stevemellon412.bsky.social, @maximillianalvarez.bsky.social and @jewishcurrents.bsky.social
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Big News: @therealnews.com won an Izzy Award for our coverage of the East Palestine train derailment & chemical disaster.
I'm honored to share this award w/ @stevemellon412.bsky.social, @sfpublicpress.bsky.social & @jewishcurrents.bsky.social. Full statement below ❤️✊🏽
therealnews.com/trnn-wins-20...
I'm honored to share this award w/ @stevemellon412.bsky.social, @sfpublicpress.bsky.social & @jewishcurrents.bsky.social. Full statement below ❤️✊🏽
therealnews.com/trnn-wins-20...
TRNN wins 2025 Izzy Award for coverage of East Palestine, OH, trainwreck & chemical disaster
TRNN is honored to share this prestigious award with Steve Mellon of Pittsburgh Union Progress. But this story is not over, and the work is not done until the people of East Palestine get justice.
therealnews.com
April 9, 2025 at 1:51 AM
Big News: @therealnews.com won an Izzy Award for our coverage of the East Palestine train derailment & chemical disaster.
I'm honored to share this award w/ @stevemellon412.bsky.social, @sfpublicpress.bsky.social & @jewishcurrents.bsky.social. Full statement below ❤️✊🏽
therealnews.com/trnn-wins-20...
I'm honored to share this award w/ @stevemellon412.bsky.social, @sfpublicpress.bsky.social & @jewishcurrents.bsky.social. Full statement below ❤️✊🏽
therealnews.com/trnn-wins-20...
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Good company: The @pghguild.com strike paper's @stevemellon412.bsky.social will share this year's Izzy Award with fellow independent journalist @maximillianalvarez.bsky.social as well as @jewishcurrents.bsky.social and
@sfpublicpress.bsky.social: www.unionprogress.com/2025/04/07/i...
@sfpublicpress.bsky.social: www.unionprogress.com/2025/04/07/i...
Izzy honored? Yes, our Steve Mellon is, with a prestigious independent journalism award - Pittsburgh Union Progress
The Pittsburgh Union Progress’ Steve Mellon has for more than two years been covering the story of the derailment and burnout and then the fallout from the train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio, wi...
www.unionprogress.com
April 8, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Good company: The @pghguild.com strike paper's @stevemellon412.bsky.social will share this year's Izzy Award with fellow independent journalist @maximillianalvarez.bsky.social as well as @jewishcurrents.bsky.social and
@sfpublicpress.bsky.social: www.unionprogress.com/2025/04/07/i...
@sfpublicpress.bsky.social: www.unionprogress.com/2025/04/07/i...
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BIG NEWS: We just won an Izzy alongside @stevemellon412.bsky.social for our coverage of the aftermath of the Norfolk-Southern train derailment in East Palestine, OH. therealnews.com/trnn-wins-20...
TRNN wins 2025 Izzy Award for coverage of East Palestine, OH, trainwreck & chemical disaster
TRNN is honored to share this prestigious award with Steve Mellon of Pittsburgh Union Progress. But this story is not over, and the work is not done until the people of East Palestine get justice.
therealnews.com
April 8, 2025 at 11:29 PM
BIG NEWS: We just won an Izzy alongside @stevemellon412.bsky.social for our coverage of the aftermath of the Norfolk-Southern train derailment in East Palestine, OH. therealnews.com/trnn-wins-20...
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One person at the rally for gender-affirming care tells @pghguild.com strike paper's @stevemellon412.bsky.social, “We are facing a federal government that is doing everything, everything in its power to deny us our humanity, erase us from history and existence." www.unionprogress.com/2025/04/04/u...
April 4, 2025 at 12:22 PM
One person at the rally for gender-affirming care tells @pghguild.com strike paper's @stevemellon412.bsky.social, “We are facing a federal government that is doing everything, everything in its power to deny us our humanity, erase us from history and existence." www.unionprogress.com/2025/04/04/u...
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"Empathy is out of vogue," writes the @pghguild.com strike paper's @stevemellon412.bsky.social. But he demonstrates plenty of empathy for people such as two friends of his who share what it feels like right now to have your very life depend on Medicaid: www.unionprogress.com/2025/03/11/w...
Waiting for news of the GOP's Medicaid cuts is like 'staring down the barrel of a shotgun' - Pittsburgh Union Progress
Here’s a moral dilemma we should present to every Sunday school class in America: You’re facing pressure from your wealthy boss to provide tax relief for people who can afford fleets of private jets, ...
www.unionprogress.com
March 11, 2025 at 12:12 PM
"Empathy is out of vogue," writes the @pghguild.com strike paper's @stevemellon412.bsky.social. But he demonstrates plenty of empathy for people such as two friends of his who share what it feels like right now to have your very life depend on Medicaid: www.unionprogress.com/2025/03/11/w...
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Tossed onto your stoop with fingers crossed, it's the Sunday Pittsburgh Union Progress, made by workers including @stevemellon412.bsky.social & @johnnysantapup.bsky.social. We also have an opinion piece by @repjess.com, who's pushing to fix the state's home care crisis. Read at www.unionprogress.com
February 2, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Tossed onto your stoop with fingers crossed, it's the Sunday Pittsburgh Union Progress, made by workers including @stevemellon412.bsky.social & @johnnysantapup.bsky.social. We also have an opinion piece by @repjess.com, who's pushing to fix the state's home care crisis. Read at www.unionprogress.com
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“Still in limbo” was the refrain after another day of testimony in the three production union case for 10J injunctive relief.
@stevemellon412.bsky.social has more for the Union Progress.
@stevemellon412.bsky.social has more for the Union Progress.
Control over work life is focus of strike hearing that is anything but 'lickety-split' - Pittsburgh Union Progress
After more than three hours of testimony in a federal courtroom in Pittsburgh Tuesday, the judge called an end to the proceeding. As is customary, everyone stood while she walked out. Members of the m...
www.unionprogress.com
January 22, 2025 at 5:25 PM
“Still in limbo” was the refrain after another day of testimony in the three production union case for 10J injunctive relief.
@stevemellon412.bsky.social has more for the Union Progress.
@stevemellon412.bsky.social has more for the Union Progress.
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“Toxicant-induced loss of tolerance” may be an underlying cause of the wide range of symptoms experienced by residents of East Palestine.
From brain fog to nosebleeds: There’s a name for what’s happening to people affected by derailment
"Toxicant-induced loss of tolerance" may be an underlying cause of the wide range of symptoms experienced by residents of East Palestine.
therealnews.com
December 20, 2024 at 3:10 PM
“Toxicant-induced loss of tolerance” may be an underlying cause of the wide range of symptoms experienced by residents of East Palestine.
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It is this exact kind of corporate/Wall St. greed that blew up the lives of working-class residents in/around East Palestine. Watch this report I did on the ground in EP @therealnews.com before the election. Listen to what this company has put these people through: therealnews.com/trainwreck-i...
November 20, 2024 at 11:00 PM
It is this exact kind of corporate/Wall St. greed that blew up the lives of working-class residents in/around East Palestine. Watch this report I did on the ground in EP @therealnews.com before the election. Listen to what this company has put these people through: therealnews.com/trainwreck-i...