That’s strike rat.

It’s a rally to support Post Gazeete workers. They’ve been on strike now for 100 days.

Here’s a link to their strike fund for anyone interested in throwing a few bucks their way to help out.

I know that's the mascot for the Post Gazette Union, but I don't understand:

A) Why? The name Scabby suggests the rat is a scab, so the bad guy, so do the boxing gloves mean he's the one the union is fighting? He's an effigy of the enemy like Guy Fawkes?

B) What "This rat's not for you" means or who it's addressed to.

It's a rat that shows up at a lot of union strikes and actions.

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Scabby is supposed to be put up in front of the businesses/headquarters of places under a strike as a symbol of the company being anti-union, but Scabby is here, in front of City Hall— not the PG— just as a symbol of the union, so they added the “not,” because Scabby isn’t striking against the City, or at least that’s my read of the situation.

Thank you. Their reasoning makes no sense, but good to know it.

They need a mascot that represents them and phrases that are self-evident.

Rats off to ya!

Yeah, it is confusing with Scabby serving the role of being the evil corporation as well as being a character of the union, they definitely should create a new character, perhaps a sentient newspaper (think Clippy) haha

Wow I was way off base. My first guess was animal testing protests

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oh, hey, i see a united electrical flag. my old union. <3

I used to work at the Frick building I loved seeing who was striking each day.

Oh I didn’t know the strike rat was a real thing! I saw it in Hulu’s ‘Difficult People’ and assumed they had made that up.

He has a fun history.

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It’s really only been 100 days? A buddy of mine works in their printing and I feel like I’ve been receiving nearly daily updates for about 6 months.

I take it to mean “a scab worker is not on your side”. They planned to take the rat to John Block’s wedding which would be a weird place to say the rat isn’t striking against them. Plus an exclamation mark makes more sense staking a position rather than notifying people that a message isn’t directed at them.

All I know is that if I see dozens of blue collar looking white people congregating on the sidewalk, I cross the street and ignore whatever they're saying. Come to think of it, if I see dozens of anybody doing that, I do the same thing.

Who's the statue?

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I contend that Wareheim/Heidecker peaked at Tom Goes to the Mayor.

I believe the rat is called scabbie, and represents scabs, ie union busters.

That’s cuz it’s a roo!

Why don't you just go ask them

That link also includes a sign-up for their alternative paper, Pittsburgh Union Progress. It’s free and extremely helpful to them as a way of proving public support!

The printers have been on strike longer than the journalists- the journalists were doing a byline strike but then became a full blown strike when their brother and sister unions forced a vote on a company wide strike - at least that’s my understanding

Scabby the rat!!