CWA Issues Response to J.D. Vance Crossing Picket Line in Pennsylvania

CWA District 2-13 Vice President Mike Davis issued the following statement in response to J.D. Vance’s decision to cross a picket line to publish an op-ed in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. The Post-Gazette has repeatedly broken federal labor laws and is due in federal court on Monday, October 28th to face the consequences. CWA members have been on strike at the paper since October 6th, 2022 in what is now America’s longest running strike.

With less than two weeks before Election Day, J.D. Vance showed his true colors when he crossed our picket line to publish an op-ed in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette – a newspaper due in federal court in a matter of days to face the repercussions for repeatedly violating U.S. labor laws and the rights of workers.

Working people in Pennsylvania are watching to see whose side J.D. Vance is really on, and his actions today spoke volumes. Just like Donald Trump, J.D. Vance is a scab.

Vance wants the trust of the American people to uphold our laws and our constitution, yet he has crossed a picket line to align himself with a lawbreaking newspaper publisher that sought to undermine our laws and the constitution itself in order to evade the consequences of violating workers’ rights.

Our strikers have bravely held their picket lines against the Post-Gazette for more than two years in America’s longest running strike. By crossing their picket line, J.D. Vance insulted the striking workers, insulted the people of Pittsburgh, and insulted working people across the country.

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