May Day rallies planned across Pennsylvania on Friday

April 28, 2026

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It’s Tuesday, April 28, 2026, and welcome back to another edition of the Keystone Labor Report.

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After the Flyers took a 3-0 series lead against the Penguins in the first round of the NHL playoffs, the Penguins are starting to make things interesting in the Battle of Pennsylvania by winning two straight games.

Sean Kitchen

Political Correspondent, The Keystone

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May Day is this Friday, and I wanted to give everyone a brief preview of some of the events happening across the commonwealth. I’ll have more about the historical significance of the holiday and what it’s meant for Pennsylvania workers in Thursday’s edition.

While Labor Day is seen as a day of celebration in recognition of workers, May Day is a day of action and protest for the labor movement, and there are over 3,500 actions planned across the US this Friday.

Some themes for this year’s rallies include taxing and taking on billionaires, defending immigrant rights, and stopping funding for the Iran War.

“If your net worth is not approaching a billion dollars, come join us on May Day,” Daniel Bauder, President of the Philadelphia AFL-CIO, told The Keystone.

Just how much is Pennsylvania’s richest billionaire benefitting from the commonwealth’s two school voucher programs? Well, it turns out, a lot.

A new report from the Action Center on Race and the Economy and LittleSis found that entities associated with Jeffrey Yass and his two business partners at Susquehanna International Group received more than $30 million in tax credits from Pennsylvania’s two voucher programs, the Education Improvement Tax Credit (EITC) and the Opportunity Scholarship Tax Credit (OSTC).

Moreover, the report highlights how Pennsylvania is one of 12 states that allows corporations and the wealthy to profit off of donations to the voucher programs.

“Pennsylvania voters were sold a bill of goods about school voucher tax credits,” said Aly Shaw, Senior Researcher with LittleSis “Upon closer examination it appears to be a cash cow for the richest man in the state who has also supported the election of 40% of our state Legislature through dark money and PAC donations.”

US Sens. John Fetterman and Dave McCormick of Pennsylvania want taxpayers to foot the $400 million bill for President Donald Trump’s White House ballroom, per The Center Square.
Corporate lawyer vs. union organizer? The American Prospect takes a look at Ryan Crosswell’s background as a lawyer with Littler Mendelson and how that’ll impact the Democratic primary race in Pennsylvania’s 7th Congressional District.
How wealthy is your member of Congress? NOTUS digs through the finances of all of Pennsylvania’s congressional lawmakers to see exactly how much they’re worth.

(Sean Kitchen/The Keystone)

Pennsylvania’s proposed billionaires tax will partially get its day on the hill on Wednesday when the Pennsylvania House Finance Committee holds a hearing on State Rep. Elizabeth Fiedler’s (D-Philadelphia) tax on digital ad spending.

House Bill 1678 is part of the Tax Billionaires, Fund Pa packet aiming to raise $6 billion by taxing passive income and digital ads, and closing tax loopholes.

Support for the billionaires tax has been growing among Democratic lawmakers, even though it faces little chance of becoming law by the end of this year.