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Some Maine voters in yesterday's midterm election rejected Portland's "Question D," which would have increased the city's minimum wage from $12.75 an hour to $18 an hour by 2025. Employers would also have no longer been allowed to pay tipped workers the sub-minimum wage of $6.38, with tips bringing them up to the current minimum wage. Joe Lazzerini, northeast campaign director with One Fair Wage Maine, said workers deserve better. ...

Election Day is busy at most news outlets, but some employees of the Pittsburgh Post Gazette are picketing today, still on strike for what they consider unfair labor practices of the newspaper's parent company. Some workers have been off the job since Oct. 6; others since Oct. ...

Newsroom employees of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette went on strike Tuesday.

A photo essay of striking Pittsburgh Post-Gazette journalists who are promising to publish a "strike publication" in the near future.

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette journalists began an unfair labor practice strike on Tuesday after the paper’s management refused to meet union demands.