Half Price Book Workers Win a Union and Union Buster Supreme: The Pittsburgh Post Gazette

Last fall workers at two Half Priced Books stores organized a union. Now workers at the Westport store have won a first contract. We’ll celebrate with them this week on the Heartland Labor Forum . Then, one of the longest strikes in recent history ended with a judge’s order and a big win for the union. Then management fired everyone and shutdown operations. Yes it’s the Pittsburg Post Gazette, and we’ll talk to the President of the News Guild CWA’s John Schleuss. Thursday at 6pm, rebroadcast Friday at 5am. Our feature is Voices from Labor History with Christina Dismang.

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Half Price Book Workers Win a Union and Union Buster Supreme: The Pittsburgh Post Gazette is an episode from Heartland Labor Forum by KKFI 90.1 FM.

This episode is 59:37 long.

This episode was published on Jan 26, 2026.

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