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Last year, the National Labor Relations Board ruled that the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette did not bargain in good faith with its employees, and now the board has begun the process of filing a federal injunction against the newspaper. The National Labor Relations Board will petition for a temporary injunction after employers alleged that the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette violated worker rights. Workers are represented by the NewsGuild-Communications Workers of America, and the union claims that the newspaper recently changed worker policies, reduced workers’ vacation time, lessened worker protections, and increased healthcare costs. Various workers at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette have been on strike for the past eighteen months, and are hoping that the situation will improve once the injunction request is filed. In response to the strike action, the newspaper hired new journalists to replace the journalists on strike, while striking journalists began a separate publication titled the “Pittsburgh Union Progress”.