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lfelizleon.bsky.social @lfelizleon.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
AFGE Local 3669 statement:
We have received confirmation that a member of AFGE Local 3669, Alex J. Pretti, was the man killed during the incident. At this time, many of the details remain unclear. Video of the incident is circulating on social media, and the Department of Homeland Security has publicly stated that the victim was brandishing a weapon at officers. However, based on the video currently available, that claim is not clearly established. 

We just recently discovered that the officer involved was a Border Patrol officer and we are still not certain if he was a member of AFGE. 

This is an unfolding and extremely serious matter. Until we have verified facts, it is important that we refrain from speculation or drawing conclusions.

What we do know is this: a member of our union lost their life today, and that alone is devastating. Our hearts are heavy, and we are deeply stricken by this tragedy that has befallen one of our own.

Until more information becomes available, I urge everyone to remain calm and encourage peace and restraint in all communications and actions. We will continue to monitor the situation closely and will share additional information as soon as we are able to confirm it.
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Bellingcat @bellingcat.com · 24/01/2026
Moments before the first shot is fired, this federal agent can be seen retreating with a gun. It appears to match the general appearance of the firearm posted by DHS, including the red dot sight. This agent’s back is turned when the first shot occurs. x.com/BillMelugin_...
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Bob Batz Jr. @bobbatzjr.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
Here's a way to support our @steelworkers.bsky.social fam in and around Clairton: gofund.me/32d6b619
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Donate to Help Families of USW Local 1557 Clairton works, organized by Travis Laing
The USW local 1557 will be raising funds for the families of the deceased … Travis Laing needs your support for Help Families of USW Local 1557 Clairton works
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Bob Batz Jr. @bobbatzjr.bsky.social · 26/07/2025
The PUP's Ed Blazina reports from Pittsburgh Regional Transit's monthly board meeting where "more than two dozen transit advocates ... encouraged the board to use some of its reserve funds to delay the scheduled [service] cutbacks until September 2026 ..." www.unionprogress.com/2025/07/26/a...
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Advocates push Pittsburgh Regional Transit to delay cuts, but agency says it needs more money - Pittsburgh Union Progress
For nearly three weeks, Pittsburgh Regional Transit CEO Katharine Eagan Kelleman and her planning staff have been playing a daily waiting game, waiting for the state Legislature to adopt a new budget ...
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Evan Greer @evangreer.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
they never miss
The Onion: Protesters Urged Not To Give Trump Administration Pretext For What It Already Doing
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Anna Phillips @annaphillips.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
I've thought many times in the last 7 years that it's likely that the most impactful thing I will have done in my academic career was the work to organize the Tufts PhD student union. But we, as organizers talked about extra protections for international PhD students, I never imagined this.
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connor chapman @cmchapman.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
Pittsburgh is a union town! #solidarity✊
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Starbucks Workers United @sbworkersunited.org · 11/03/2025
BREAKING: Police have been called on current and former Starbucks workers in Pittsburgh. This store went on strike, with workers demanding the company finalize fair contracts - and now some are being arrested. Shame on Starbucks for letting it get to this point. #ToBeAPartner
Workers are led out by police, with union supporters seen chanting around themA Starbucks worker gets led away by police
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Ian Carrillo @iansociologo.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
Social movement scholarship is clear that both activist organizations (founded as explicitly political) and everyday organizations (eg NGOs, sports & recreational clubs, neighborhood committees) can all be useful for promoting collective action.
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Bob Batz Jr. @bobbatzjr.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
Also, Ed Blazina isn't on here yet, except when I share his stories for the @pghguild.com strike paper, but if you see him in real life, congratulate him for earning the journalism award of the American Society of Civil Engineers Pittsburgh: www.unionprogress.com/2025/02/02/p...
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Pittsburgh civil engineers announce 2024 awards, including one to PUP's Ed Blazina - Pittsburgh Union Progress
The American Society of Civil Engineers Pittsburgh Section has announced its annual awards “to celebrate and raise public awareness about civil engineering and the contributions that civil engineers m...
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Bob Batz Jr. @bobbatzjr.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
Reporting live from Downtown this morning, the @pghguild.com strike paper's Ed Blazina has two stories on Pittsburgh Regional Transit. The agency has a severe financial shortfall. And a transit advocacy group takes issue with much of its proposed bus route redesign. www.unionprogress.com
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Charlie Wolfson @chwolfson.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
Here's @publicsource.org coverage of yesterday's Pittsburgh City Planning Commission meeting on inclusionary zoning — all 11 HOURS of testimony and public comment. tl;dr: Gainey's plan won approval, Charland's plan was voted down. www.publicsource.org/inclusionary...
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Inclusionary zoning prevails before Pittsburgh commission
Pittsburgh’s City Planning Commission endorsed Mayor Ed Gainey’s proposal to require affordable units in larger, new housing construction, after rejecting a less comprehensive version, at the end of a...
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Starbucks Workers United @sbworkersunited.org · 21/12/2024
workers coming together to fight for the wages they deserve? OH THANK HEAVEN 🙏🔥🔥 From one of our Pittsburgh pickets:
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connor chapman @cmchapman.bsky.social · 21/12/2024
join the line in Pittsburgh ✊️✊️✊️
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Newspaper Guild of Pittsburgh @pghguild.com · 03/12/2024
As our strike against the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette enters a third holiday season, we’re raising money to keep our strikers and their families supported. Can you make a donation to show that the community has their backs as they continue to hold the line against the millionaire Block family?
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Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Striker Holiday Fund
Workers at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette have been on strike for over two years. Contributions to the Holiday Fund will be used to purchase gas and union supermarket gift cards for striking workers.
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Emergency Workplace Organizing Committee (EWOC) @organizeworkers.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
👇👇👇 Support the workers who grow all the food on your Thanksgiving table!
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Liz Shuler @lizshuler.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Great news from Pitt, where graduate workers voted to unionize with @steelworkers.bsky.social in a landslide! More than 97% supported forming a union to negotiate better pay, benefits, and working conditions. Another big step forward for workers in higher ed.
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Soren Lorenson is secretly plotting your demise @soren-lorenson.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
BREAKING! University of Pittsburgh grad students just voted to unionize with United Steelworkers, following the Staff doing the same in September and Faculty also doing the same two years ago. Pitt is now fully a union shop 💪 and I will this one time only allow myself to unironically say Hail 2 Pitt
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connor chapman @cmchapman.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
i joined the committee just after that loss, it was high covid and prospects looked bleak. I'm so proud we could take lessons learned and put up these numbers ✊️✊️✊️
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connor chapman @cmchapman.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
when we fight, we win!
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connor chapman @cmchapman.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
Graduate workers at the University of Pittsburgh voted overwhelmingly to unionize. Over 97% of Graduate Teaching Assistants, Teaching Fellows, Graduate Student Researchers, and Graduate Student Assistants voted to join the @steelworkers.bsky.social Tally: 1033 YES - 28 NO
members of the Pitt Graduate Workers Organizing Committee hold a blue banner that reads "Pitt Graduate Workers Union- USW. The university runs on grad labor."a legal notepad with a vote counters final Tally. the paper is divided into 2 columns, with 1033 tick marks in the yes column and 28 ticks in the no column pitt graduate workers hug after final tallies are complete graduate worker organizers celebrate after the union victory
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C.M. Lewis 🦬⚔️ @thehousered.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
Working on a starter pack of union folks in PA. Reply if I missed you. 👇👇 go.bsky.app/QXEknha
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connor chapman @cmchapman.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
grad unions keep racking up wins! next week 2000 grad workers at the University of Pittsburgh will vote to join @steelworkers.bsky.social !
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connor chapman @cmchapman.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
very proud of a friend who helped organize on this campaign ✊️✊️✊️
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connor chapman @cmchapman.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
intro post! I'm a sociology PhD candidate at the Univ. of Pittsburgh, researching how grassroots movements for labor and climate justice shape urban development by working with local public transit advocates. I also double as a union organizer in higher ed looking forward to connecting with folks!
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Newspaper Guild of Pittsburgh @pghguild.com · 13/11/2024
We are the Newspaper Guild of Pittsburgh, representing the striking journalists at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, and the full-time faculty at Point Park University.
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Dan "Mr. Bones and Me" Greene @dmgreene.bsky.social · 12/11/2024
The Coalition of Graduate Employees at Oregon State, AFT Local 6069, is on strike! OSU is bargaining in bad faith. Teachers can't teach if they can't buy groceries. Researchers can't research if they can't make rent. Learn more here www.cge6069.org And donate to the strike fund on Venmo @CGE-OSU
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Coalition of Graduate Employees
The Coalition of Graduate Employees at Oregon State University is the union that stands for the betterment of the research and teaching assistants' work conditions and rights by bargaining fair workin...
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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 10/11/2024
Right-wing elites are more palatable because they promote the myth of meritocracy--that anyone can be elite if they work hard enough and if government gets out of their way. This is a myth, but it gives people a sense of agency, and it appeals to those who feel government has burned them before.
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