Labor
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PA lawmakers scold Applegreen for cutting turnpike worker wages
In response to previous Keystone reporting, Democratic state senators sent Applegreen a letter asking if its CEO was also willing to take a pay cut.
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UPMC nurses make history by voting to unionize
Nurses at UPMC Magee-Womens Hospital became the first nurses to win a union election at University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pennsylvania’s largest employer.
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Rep. Chris Deluzio says Democrats need to earn union members’ trust back
US Rep. Chris Deluzio believes his party needs a better approach to win over union members.
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Billionaire-backed group trying to flip control of PA Supreme Court
A Republican-linked dark money organization is starting to advertise in the upcoming Pennsylvania Supreme Court race in a bid to flip control of the court, which has a 5-2 Democratic majority.
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Workers decry GOP congressman’s vote for Trump budget bill
President Donald Trump’s budget bill cuts Medicaid by $1 trillion, but most won’t feel effects until after the 2026 midterms.
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For Pa.’s NIOSH employees, uncertainty remains amid lawsuits and mixed signals
After the U.S. Supreme Court ruled through its shadow docket earlier this month that President Donald Trump could move forward with plans to fire tens of thousands of federal workers, U.S. government employees across Pennsylvania braced themselves.
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Pennsylvania unions embrace Josh Shapiro; shun GOP opposition
Union leaders say they will continue to back Gov. Josh Shapiro in Pennsylvania governor’s race.
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Concerns raised in Pa. over ICE raids on farms
The head of Pennsylvania’s Farm Bureau says the Trump-directed raids, “could have devastating consequences for our nation’s food security.”
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Thousands of Philly area union members rally with Bernie Sanders on May Day
Thousands of Philadelphia workers and union members gathered outside of City Hall on Thursday with US Sen. Bernie Sanders to celebrate May Day, an unofficial holiday in the labor movement, and protest President Donald Trump’s attacks on workers throughout the beginning of his second term.
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Gov. Shapiro says he wants to recruit laid-off federal workers to fill state job openings
Pennsylvania’s governor signed an executive order Wednesday hoping to attract those workers, noting that the state, with a workforce of almost 82,000 people, has nearly 6,000 open positions for which federal workers who are losing their jobs could apply.
