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Steve Catanese

@catanese.bsky.social
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President, SEIU Local 668 -- representing nearly 20,000 public and essential service workers across Pennsylvania. Failed journalist, sportsball romanticist, bronze gamer, dog appreciator.

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Steve Catanese @catanese.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
Nightmare run the jewels blunt rotation but in a good way
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Brett "Solidarity 2026" Banditelli @banditelli.org · 14/05/2026
That time @erikstrobl.bsky.social @catanese.bsky.social Organized Even Bigger Purp www.pennstatefacultyalliance.org/news/2026/05...
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We Won!!!
Thousands of Penn State Faculty Vote to Join SEIU Local 668.
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Steve Catanese @catanese.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
Enjoying the annual tradition of watching the WWE Royal Rumble live from Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, brought to you by ESPN, Mohammed bin Salman Al Saud on behalf of the Royal House of Saud of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Wing Stop, and Intuit TurboTax.
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Steve Catanese @catanese.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
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.
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Fight For A Union @fightforaunion.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
Today, Minneapolis sent a clear message: ICE is not welcome here, and we will protect our community! #ICEOUT #ICEOUTMN
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Christopher Terry @christopherterry.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
They are never, ever going to win in Minnesota.
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ashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com · 23/01/2026
this photo. minneapolis. 💜 📷️ Alex Kormann/Star Tribune
photo of march, signs for renee good and against ICe, crowded street.
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Steve Catanese @catanese.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
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.
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Steve Catanese @catanese.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
Simple.
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Steve Catanese @catanese.bsky.social · 14/12/2025
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.
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Steve Catanese @catanese.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
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.
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Danny @dannybauder.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
Incredible news in PA today @seiu.org local 668 filed for Penn State faculty - 6,000 new members are joining our labor movement!
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Stephen Caruso @stephenjcaruso.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
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.
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Sean Kitchen @seankitchen.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
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...
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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.
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Stephen Caruso @stephenjcaruso.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
SEIU, who are organizing the Penn State faculty into a union, are holding a rally in the rotunda.
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Newspaper Guild of Pittsburgh @pghguild.com · 10/11/2025
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.
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…
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Newspaper Guild of Pittsburgh @pghguild.com · 10/11/2025
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. pghguild.com/2025/11/10/p...
A yellow bridge in front of a city background with three banners reading "POST-GAZETTE STRIKERS WILL WIN".
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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
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.
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Steve Catanese @catanese.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
Stand for democracy and dignity for all with your neighbors today -- and my neighbors include federal workers #NoKings
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Steve Catanese @catanese.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
No one is doing it better right now. On an awkward ass career run.
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Bucks County Beacon @buckscountybeacon.com · 01/09/2025
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
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Kevin M. Levin @civilwarmemory.bsky.social · 16/08/2025
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.
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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 14/08/2025
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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Steve Catanese @catanese.bsky.social · 02/08/2025
Well-known strategy
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an egg with the word enron written on it
ALT: an egg with the word enron written on it
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Steve Catanese @catanese.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
Have never seen a pristine system designed by deloitte
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Steve Catanese @catanese.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
like that his reaction is like mine would be, which is "holy shit that's deck, that's rza"
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Steve Catanese @catanese.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
Me, the vice president: "gonna own the libs with this tweet. tagging this columnist to really turn the engagement temperature up" *silence* Me, the vice president: "ah yes, this is power. This is influence."
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Steve Catanese @catanese.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
We stood with David Huerta in Pennsylvania today and we'll continue to stand with him under he's fully exonerated.
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
In itself it's not the biggest thing but Congress specifically passed a law requiring ICE to allow access to members of Congress because of Trump's antics in the first term. This isn't even norms. It's violating black letter statute law.
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Steve Catanese @catanese.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
Free David Huerta
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Steve Catanese @catanese.bsky.social · 07/06/2025
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California Federation of Labor Unions @californialabor.bsky.social · 07/06/2025
The California Labor Movement stands in strong solidarity with our brother David Huerta. We demand his immediate release! @seiuca.bsky.social
A statement from Lorena Gonzalez about the brutal assault and arrest of David Huerta by ICE.
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SEIU_ORG @seiu.org · 06/06/2025
An American citizen and Los Angeles native, @seiucalifornia @seiuusww President David Huerta was injured and detained when ICE terrorized a working neighborhood. We demand his immediate release!
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Rocío Sáenz @seiusaenz.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
David Huerta must be released immediately to heal and begin a full recovery. David and all working people have put their bodies on the line for far too long to fight for justice and protect our communities. Violence has no place here.
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Steve Catanese @catanese.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
Our @seiu.org brother David Huerta is thrown to the ground and apprehended by ICE in this video. There are few more principled defenders of immigrants in the labor movement. He needs our solidarity now. An injury to one is an injury to all.
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Steve Catanese @catanese.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
Having morals beyond following polls isn't rocket science. Stand for something, stick with something. I'm begging people.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 04/06/2025
i think this new york centric worldview helps explain why these people see national politics the way they do. parochialism of thinking that politics everywhere is the same as it is in manhattan.
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Steve Catanese @catanese.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
Call it Project Lose Again
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Wyatt Massey @news4mass.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
NEW: We've learned that Penn State's board will not consider campus closures on a case-by-case basis, but will instead take a simple majority vote on one proposal this month. But the board's plan to hold a virtual-only meeting for the vote could run afoul of a Pennsylvania transparency law.
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How Penn State’s trustees plan to vote on campus closures
Penn State trustees plan to meet virtually in May to decide the fate of 12 commonwealth campuses. Lawyers say the plan could run afoul of PA’s transparency law.
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becca laurie @imbeccable.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
bill de blasio in park slope, ordering his breakfast sandwich as “mi sandwich especial” and quoting the onion headline omg www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
Screenshot from The New Yorker: One morning a few weeks ago, I met de Blasio at his regular coffee shop in Park Slope. He had just come from the gym—the same one that he’d insisted on commuting to every morning from Gracie Mansion, no matter how much grief the press gave him for it—and was wearing sweats. He held forth among his fellow-patrons with a spirit of magnanimous, possibly unreciprocated camaraderie, greeting a startled man by the door with a familiar “How you doing, brother?” and ordering his breakfast (scrambled egg whites, cheddar, ham, and tomato on multigrain toast) as “mi sandwich especial.” These days, de Blasio most often makes the news for his love life or for such momentous moves as dyeing his salt-and-pepper crewcut. But he’s sensed a bit of de Blasio nostalgia creeping into town. “Since I left office, the No. 1 thing that people come up to me on the street and talk about is pre-K,” he told me, lacing his iced espresso with a heavy pour of simple syrup. “The No. 2 thing that people talk about is that Onion headline.” He quoted it for me, savoring every word: “Well, well, well, not so easy to find a mayor that doesn’t suck shit, huh?”
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
News: Four union leaders call for Abrego Garcia's release in new letter to El Salvadoran ambassador. Labor is ramping up its advocacy for this sheet metal worker. "The erosion of rights and due process for immigrants in the US is a direct threat to the rights of all working people."
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AFL-CIO @aflcio.org · 28/04/2025
When we fight, we win! We commend the court for recognizing the Trump administration’s executive order stripping collective bargaining rights for what it was: illegal, retaliatory union-busting. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
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Steve Catanese @catanese.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
I'll be taking part in this tomorrow night. Hope to see you there!
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SEIU Local 668 @seiulocal668.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
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Steve Catanese: It’s time to recognize 911 workers for what they are — first responders
What’s the first thing we do in an emergency? Dial 911. The very first person you speak to typically works long, irregular hours. Your call may be about a cat stuck in a tree or a downed power l...
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Steve Catanese @catanese.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
They should've let him keep cooking last year
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J.J. Abbott @jjabbott.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
Another packed crowd in #PA10 where Scott Perry is dodging his constituents while trying to cut their health care to give wealthy elites tax cuts they don’t need @alexismjpp.bsky.social here to help hold him accountable
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15/04/2025
Abrego Garcia's wife: "I will not stop fighting until I see my husband alive. Kilmar, if you can hear me, stay strong. God hasn't forgotten about you. Our children are asking when you will come home ... they miss their dad so much."
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Steve Catanese @catanese.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
Yeah but we're talking about the President
Text from X post: Triple H on Donald Trump:

“Trump’s ability, like him or hate him the way he does it... he’s charismatic in so many ways, and I think he likes getting under peoples skin, generating heat. It’s amazing and it’s genius.”
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ian bremmer @ianbremmer.com · 14/04/2025
bloomberg: ~90% of deported migrants to el salvador had no criminal record
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