For Clare Duffus, who has been a postpartum nurse at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC) Magee-Womens Hospital for the past four years, joining a union was a no-brainer.

She shared with The Keystone that caring for her patients and getting them better treatment was one of her main reasons for supporting the union.

Duffus and hundreds of her other colleagues will be joining the Service Employees International Union Healthcare Pennsylvania (SEIU HCPA) after they voted 402 to 305 in favor of the union last week.

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Gov. Josh Shapiro defends his record and makes the argument for reelection in 2026 after Pennsylvania State Treasurer Stacy Garrity announced her campaign as a Republican candidate.

Shapiro spoke to reporters in Harrisburg on Tuesday after celebrating the elimination of call times and backlogs with the commonwealth’s unemployment compensation system.

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State Representative Mike Schlossberg explains how PA Senate Republicans defunded mass transit.

#FundSEPTA #PublicTransitMatters #PennsylvaniaTransit #ISEPTAPHILLY #HowWeRoll

Philadelphia AFL-CIO President Daniel Bauder didn’t hold back when criticizing Immigration Customs and Enforcement (ICE) agents while speaking at a press conference outside ICE’s Philadelphia field office on Thursday.

The press conference was organized by State Sens. Nikil Saval (D-Philadelphia) and Amanda Cappelletti (D-Montgomery) and called out ICE agents for operating as a secret police force.

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Solidarity with her hardworking brothers and sisters is the thing Susan Bosco loves most about being in a union.

Click the link in bio to sign up for the Keystone Labor Report and read about Bosco’s 20 years of union service.

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Get ready!

The Keystone Labor Report is a labor and economic newsletter that launches this Tuesday. It’s a twice-a-week report that’ll focus on those issues at the local, state, and federal levels in Pennsylvania as well as hold billionaires accountable.

You can sign up to have the Keystone Labor Report delivered straight to your inbox by clicking on the link in our bio.

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State Rep. Justin Fleming (D-Dauphin) highlighted the Republican Party’s hypocrisy when it comes to putting corporate profits over their constituents at a town hall in Harrisburg on Monday.

Fleming, along with other local leaders, spoke at a “Stop the Billionaires” town hall hosted by Fair Share America, which focused on President Donald Trump’s budget cuts in the “One Big Beautiful Bill.”

Former US House Rep. Conor Lamb swiped at US Sens. Dave McCormick and John Fetterman for ignoring blatant corruption from President Donald Trump during his second term.

If you love a night under the Pennsylvania sky, you're probably already noticing some changes at your favorite campgrounds.

Purchasing health insurance through Pennie, the commonwealth’s health care marketplace, is about to get a lot more expensive and harder to obtain thanks to President Donald Trump’s “One Big Beautiful Bill Act.”

Republicans failed to extend tax credits for state-run health care marketplaces, which expire at the end of 2025. Nearly half a million Pennsylvanians use Pennie, and 200,000 are at risk under Trump’s new policies.

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