Striking Wabtec workers bring their fight, and solidarity, to Pittsburgh
For an hour or so late Thursday afternoon, about 250 people stood in the summer heat on Isabella Street on Pittsburgh’s North Shore and listened to union members talk about struggles with their employers.
They heard from members of two United Electrical Workers locals in Erie who are on strike at Wabtec Corp.’s plant there over a number of issues, including affordable health care, livable wages and the right to strike over grievances. Those workers build locomotives for Wabtec, headquartered in a glass and steel office building on Isabella, just down the block from PNC Park.