Bob Batz Jr.
Associate Features Editor at Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Interim Editor at Pittsburgh Union Progress
Interim editor @ThePUPNews. Soon I'll get back to work documenting Pittsburgh beer and other cool aspects of W. Pa./Ohio Valley life. It's all interim, right?
Articles
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2 weeks ago |
post-gazette.com | Megan Guza |Dan Gigler |Bob Batz Jr. |Bob Podurgiel
Joseph Riley is ready for a new beginning seven months after his famed and classic Irish public house was destroyed by a fire. A fire ripped through Riley’s Pour House on East Main Street in Carnegie in November, devastating employees and patrons who saw the 45-year-old pub as the “fabric of their lives,” Mr. Riley said.
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3 weeks ago |
unionprogress.com | Bob Batz Jr.
In the first contract bargaining session since November 2024, during a strike that’s almost two years and eight months long, Newspaper Guild of Pittsburgh journalists and the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette got a bit closer on a few small things, but they’re still very, very far apart. The meeting started at about 10:15 a.m. Thursday in the Lawrence Welk Room of Downtown’s Omni William Penn Hotel.
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2 months ago |
blueskypit.com | Bob Batz Jr.
By Bob Batz Jr.Published April 21, 2025Print/DownloadA new retail store in the heart of the airside terminal at Pittsburgh International Airport demonstrates the airport’s commitment to supplying travelers with a selection of products that celebrate Pittsburgh.
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Mar 13, 2025 |
unionprogress.com | Bob Batz Jr.
Workers in three news production and advertising unions that have been on strike at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette for two years and five months over a dispute over their health care coverage have voted to accept settlements that end their strike, their jobs and their union locals. Theirs is the longest-running strike in the country, and it still is ongoing, as their union siblings in the Newspaper Guild of Pittsburgh are continuing to strike for their legal rights.
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Mar 12, 2025 |
unionprogress.com | Bob Batz Jr.
When Starbucks workers invited friends over for some coffee and some good trouble Tuesday morning, plenty of Pittsburghers were happy to join them, including several striking Pittsburgh news workers. The region’s Starbucks workers have been great supporters of that strike, showing up at rallies and at picket lines at all hours of the day and night. So several striking Newspaper Guild of Pittsburgh workers were delighted to show their solidarity.
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