Vice presidential candidate Sen. JD Vance (Ohio) crossed a virtual picket line by publishing an opinion piece in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette on Thursday, according to the union whose workers are on strike at the newspaper.
Jon Schleuss, president of the NewsGuild-CWA, told HuffPost that there was no excuse for Vance, the running mate of former President Donald Trump, not to be aware of the strike that just entered its third year.
“JD Vance has crossed a very obvious picket line by striking Americans,” Schleuss said. “And JD Vance is a scab just like anybody else who crosses a picket line.”
Early Thursday, the Post-Gazette ran a piece under Vance’s byline entitled “Kamala Harris’ prejudice against Catholics,” in which he criticized the Democratic nominee for skipping the Al Smith dinner last week to campaign. The dinner traditionally features a roast of both candidates and benefits Catholic charities; Trump attended and said a bunch of nasty stuff .
Vance’s piece does not appear to have run in any other publications. Beneath his byline, it reads: “Special to the Post-Gazette.”