PITTSBURGH (AP) — The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette’s owners announced Wednesday the paper will be shutting down in a few months, citing financial losses. Block Communications Inc. announced it will cease publication on May 3. The paper is printed on Thursdays and Sundays and says on its website the average paid circulation is 83,000. A couple dozen union members returned to work at the Post-Gazette in November after a three-year strike. Related Articles California loses $160M for delaying revocation of 17,000 commercial driver’s licenses for immigrants Minnesota childcare fraud allegations spark audit request in Massachusetts: ‘Serious risks’ Ticker: Job openings slide; Warner Bros again rejects Paramount bid US will exit 66 international organizations as it further retreats from global cooperation Trump immigration policies and a lower fertility rate slow US growth projection, budget office says More than five years ago, the newspaper declared it had reached a bargaining impasse with the Newspaper Guild of Pittsburgh and unilaterally imposed terms and conditions of employment on those workers. The paper was later found to have bargained in bad faith by making offers that were not intended to help reach a deal and by declaring an impasse prematurely. The announcement that Block was shutting it down came on the same day the U.S. Supreme Court declined the PG Publishing Co. Inc.’s emergency appeal to halt an National Labor Relations Board order that forced it to abide by health care coverage policies in an expired union contract. Andrew Goldstein, president of the Newspaper Guild of Pittsburgh, said…
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