Photos from the first week of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette workers’ strike.

John Santa holds a sign during the first day of picketing Tuesday, Oct. 18, outside of the Post-Gazette office on the North Shore. (Melissa Tkach)
Alex McCann is interviewed for TV on Tuesday, Oct. 18 outside of the Post-Gazette office on the North Shore. (Melissa Tkach)
Production workers picket Tuesday, Oct. 18, outside of the Post-Gazette office on the North Shore. (Melissa Tkach)
The NewsGuild of New York provided pizza for picketers on the first day of the strike Tuesday, Oct. 18, outside of the Post-Gazette office on the North Shore. (Melissa Tkach)
Melissa Tkach, left, and other Post-Gazette strikers show up for the second day of picketing Wednesday, Oct. 19, outside of the Post-Gazette office on the North Shore. (Jon Schleuss)
Members of Mailers Local M-22 join Post-Gazette picketers Wednesday, Oct. 19, outside of the Post-Gazette office on the North Shore. (Jon Schleuss)
Mike Pound, left, and NewsGuild organizer Stephanie Basile participate in chants Thursday, Oct. 20, outside of the Post-Gazette office on the North Shore. (Jon Schleuss)
NewsGuild President Jon Schleuss, center, participates in a chant Thursday, Oct. 20, outside of the Post-Gazette office on the North Shore. (Steve Mellon)
Strike outside of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette office Thursday, Oct. 20, on the North Shore. (Steve Mellon)
Sports copy editor Joe Knupsky pickets outside the Post-Gazette newsroom Friday, Oct. 21, on the North Shore. (Pam Panchak)
Reporter Ed Blazina writes a message in chalk that read “pay your workers not attorneys” as members of the Newspaper Guild of Pittsburgh and supporters of their strike against the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette rally in front of the house of publisher John Block, Saturday, Oct. 22, in Shadyside. (Alexandra Wimley)
Members of the Newspaper Guild of Pittsburgh and supporters of their strike against the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette rally in front of the house of publisher John Block, Saturday, Oct. 22, in Shadyside. (Alexandra Wimley)
Members of the Newspaper Guild of Pittsburgh and supporters of their strike against the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette rally in front of the house of publisher John Block, Saturday, Oct. 22, in Shadyside. (Alexandra Wimley)
Newspaper Guild of Pittsburgh’s Ed Blazina and Natalie Judith deliver a signed letter of demands to Pittsburgh Post-Gazette publisher John Block’s door as union members and supporters of their strike against the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette rally in front of Mr. Block’s house, Saturday, Oct. 22, in Shadyside. (Alexandra Wimley)
Members of the Pittsburgh Labor Choir perform as members of the Newspaper Guild of Pittsburgh and supporters of their strike against the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette rally in front of the house of publisher John Block, Saturday, Oct. 22, in Shadyside. (Alexandra Wimley)
A truck enter the Butler Eagle’s printing facility as striking Pittsburgh Post-Gazette employees in the Teamsters, Pressmen, Mailers, and Typographical unions hold a picket line outside of the facility, which printed the Sunday edition of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Saturday, Oct. 22, in Butler. (Alexandra Wimley)
Striking Pittsburgh Post-Gazette employees in the Teamsters, Pressmen, Mailers, and Typographical unions hold a picket line outside of the Butler Eagle’s printing facility, which printed the Sunday edition of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Saturday, Oct. 22, in Butler. (Alexandra Wimley)
A truck drives to the Butler Eagle’s printing facility as striking Pittsburgh Post-Gazette employees in the Teamsters, Pressmen, Mailers, and Typographical unions hold a picket line outside of the facility, which printed the Sunday edition of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Saturday, Oct. 22, in Butler. (Alexandra Wimley)
Emmalee Reed