Steve Catanese

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Was talking to a union member about conditions for general strikes recently why we weren't there yet in places like PA -- this week we got to have a follow up about why Minnesota hits broad conditions, how, risks, and opportunities.

I still worry about next steps, but today is a big first step.

Today, Minneapolis sent a clear message: ICE is not welcome here, and we will protect our community!
#ICEOUT #ICEOUTMN

They are never, ever going to win in Minnesota.

photo of march, signs for renee good and against ICe, crowded street.

this photo. minneapolis. 💜

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Imagine this was your son, your neighbor, your nephew, your child's playmate, or just any fucking kid on the street being used as raid bait by a federal agency to round up working people who have done literally nothing wrong.

Actual death quotas. Absolutely disgusting.

Simple.

Prayers up for this king this morning. The video of his heroism, for as dire of a moment it was, is breathtaking and inspiring.

I don't want to call it his "sacrifice" because I know he has the will to live and is going to see this through.

Yup. Lopsided in more recent years too, Newcastle's steel history, both in the north, etc.

Browns-Steelers

Mich thanks brother! Work hand-in-hand with APSCUF all of the time and deeply appreciate the solidarity.

If the election stands as we filed for it, biggest we far as we can track back -- higher ed or otherwise. So either the last 50 years or ever.

Would not be the biggest BU existing in the public sector in PA (our state unit is bigger and AFSCME's state unit is bigger than ours).

The Penn State Faculty Alliance is going to win a union and I'm proud as hell that it's with our local SEIU 668.

It's been a long, beautiful fight for union democracy and we're here -- one of, if not the, biggest public sector union election in Pennsylvania in 50 years.

Incredible news in PA today @seiu.org local 668 filed for Penn State faculty - 6,000 new members are joining our labor movement!

Was great to meet you in person today and looking forward to what comes next!

Appreciate everything you did to get us here

News: Penn State University's faculty -- including full and part time professors at the main and satellite campuses -- have filed for a union election with the Pennsylvania Labor Relations Board with SEIU Local 668, setting up the state's largest union election in decades.

Penn State faculty file for largest public sector union election in state history Approximately 6,000 Penn State University professors and faculty members are ready to vote in the largest public sector union vote ever in Pennsylvania.

Penn State professors and faculty members filed for one of the largest public sector union elections in state history on Tuesday.

keystonenewsroom.com/2025/12/09/p...

SEIU, who are organizing the Penn State faculty into a union, are holding a rally in the rotunda.

Come on now

Post-Gazette Strikers Win Three-Year Strike U.S. 3rd Circuit Court of Appeals Orders Pittsburgh Post-Gazette to Restore Workers’ Rights On Monday, the U.S. 3rd Circuit Court of Appeals ordered the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette to repeal more than five years of worker rights violations and to compensate the workers who were impacted by those violations. The order, which enforces a September 2024 ruling from the National Labor Relations Board, reflects the longstanding demands of Post-Gazette workers. They have been on strike since October 2022. The Post-Gazette must now comply with the Court’s order. Strikers look forward to ending the strike and returning to work. “Ever since Post-Gazette management ripped apart our contract in 2020, our union of journalists has been standing and fighting the lawless union-busting that we’ve been subjected to every step of the way,” said Andrew Goldstein, striking education reporter and Newspaper Guild of Pittsburgh president. “When we walked out on strike in October 2022 it wasn’t just for us and our rights as workers, we were fighting for fair treatment for the future journalists in Pittsburgh and beyond. Today’s victory vindicates our fight and shows that NewsGuild workers will never back down no matter how long it takes.” Though the paper has continuously flouted federal labor law for the better part of a decade, the combination of its workers’ strike and a circuit court ruling corners the union-busting operation. The Supreme Court, in practice, does not accept appeals of this kind. And Post-Gazette corporate brass, and attorneys, have long maintained that they would win on appeal in circuit court. Instead, striking Post-Gazette workers — members of the Newspaper Guild of Pittsburgh-CWA — are ready to return to work on the terms they have demanded throughout their three-year strike. Those include a restoration of the health care plan the company illegally took away without bargaining in July of 2020. The contract coverage was rep…

At the same time, the Post-Gazette eliminated the guarantee of a 40-hour work week, gutted the collectively bargained short-term disability plan, took away some workers’ paid time off as well as the right to fight discipline from managers, among other issues. The imposed health care plan effectively cut workers’ wages by thousands of dollars annually by shifting costs to the employees. “The Blocks shameless attempts at union busting failed again,” said NewsGuild-CWA President Jon Schleuss. “What the Blocks — and all owners like them — need to understand is that they cannot break the law. We are stronger, braver and more principled than any boss can possibly imagine. The NewsGuild stands ready to support every journalist and all of our members in whatever it takes, however long it takes.” "Let this be a lesson to the bosses and the bullies who think they can starve working people into submission — when we stand together, we have the power, the tenacity and the will to win," said Claude Cummings, Jr., president of the Communications Workers of America. "I am immensely proud of our strikers for their righteous victory today, and also of members and retirees from across our union and the labor movement who have stood in solidarity, donated, and sustained our strikers for three long years. When we fight together, we win together." Throughout the three-year strike, neighbors, union members and supporters of the workers near and far have provided invaluable support by rallying with strikers, standing on picket lines and directly confronting PG managers and owners for a fair settlement. Many have provided financial support —donating more than $1 million — and boycotted the struck paper. Workers themselves have continued to publish their own coverage of Pittsburgh and beyond as the Pittsburgh Union Progress. "It has been an honor to fight alongside my fellow strikers and to take care of one another for the past three-plus years. We had to do both to achieve this well-e…

The order affirms what we’ve said all along: The PG’s lawless union-busting cannot stand. We made sure it didn’t. We’re taking back what they stole from us. We won this strike.

Unlike the many previous rulings in our favor against the PG, the 3rd Circuit has enforcement power.

A yellow bridge in front of a city background with three banners reading "POST-GAZETTE STRIKERS WILL WIN".

BREAKING: We won!

Today the 3rd Circuit Court ordered the @post-gazette.com to restore our contract it illegally tore up 5 years ago. That’s our health care, PTO, right to a 40-hr. work week, short-term disability and so much more we’ve struck for 3+ years.

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So you should really watch this. Just 2 minutes. But a window into the truly radical nature of the people Trump is nominating.

When pressed today, the nominee to be Ambassador to South Africa refuses to oppose reinstituting laws to prevent black people from voting in America.

Stand for democracy and dignity for all with your neighbors today -- and my neighbors include federal workers #NoKings

Wasn't but was in our league.

No one is doing it better right now. On an awkward ass career run.

At Lowe’s, for instance, every one of their 273,000 employees could’ve gotten an annual $28,456 bonus over the past six years with the money the retailer blew on stock buybacks. Lowe’s median worker pay was just $30,606 last year. #LaborDay #EconomicJustice #ClassWar

This is not how you host a discussion about the history of slavery in the United States. You take the opportunity to invite on experts in the field, who can communicate and educate the American people on the current state of our understanding of this subject. Let's not turn history into Crossfire.

The spending required to build the data centres needed to power the AI era will be one of the biggest movements of capital in modern history.

Who will pay for the $3tn AI building boom? We take a look here: on.ft.com/46StN6Z

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