The PD viciously pounded the final nail in the coffin.

After more than 80 years, the Northeast Ohio’s Local 1, at the Plain Dealer, is dead.

The PD Guild statement said that unit will be dissolved Sunday, May 17. A "They is done" taps as a funeral dirge in the background with a white cross planted at 1801 Superior Avenue would be appropriate.

The PD on Friday, May 15 will lay off the 4 remaining reporters, who have been offered jobs at the non-union Cleveland.com scab organization that will put out what’s left of the PD.

The Northeast Ohio Newspaper Guild claims it has “about 130” members at the BJ, the Canton Repository and the Massillon Independent but that number seems as inflated as Trump crowd math.

The PD went from 340 journalists to NONE in 20 years.

PD Guild members included retired rock and roll reporter Jane Scott, in the Cleveland Press Hall of Fame; former Cleveland mayor and Congressman Dennis Kucinich; and Hollywood screenwriter Joe Eszterhas (“Basic Instinct,” “Flashdance”), whose net worth is $18 million, not bad for a guy born in the village of Csakanydoroszlo, Hungary (total’s population: 1,757) as Jozsef Eszterhas. He is listed as the ONLY “notable people” ever born there, in 1944 in Joe’s case. It’s on the western border of Hungary

For another painful look at the PD situation by the Columbia Journalism Review, click on https://www.cjr.org/analysis/advance-local-one-cleveland-plain-dealer-layoffs.php?fbclid=IwAR2bV7z6zYwRdc0dxibrDeRTu8SFixmda21pqsxpMhvGV9sEB81mF2vdu-c