Steve Catanese
@catanese.bsky.social
President, SEIU Local 668 -- representing nearly 20,000 public and essential service workers across Pennsylvania.
Failed journalist, sportsball romanticist, bronze gamer, dog appreciator.
Failed journalist, sportsball romanticist, bronze gamer, dog appreciator.
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Steve Catanese
@catanese.bsky.social
· Nov 25
Looking Back on the Spanish War -- www.orwellfoundation.com/the-orwell-f...
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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.
Unlike the many previous rulings in our favor against the PG, the 3rd Circuit has enforcement power.
November 10, 2025 at 5:48 PM
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.
Unlike the many previous rulings in our favor against the PG, the 3rd Circuit has enforcement power.
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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...
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...
November 10, 2025 at 5:48 PM
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...
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...
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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.
When pressed today, the nominee to be Ambassador to South Africa refuses to oppose reinstituting laws to prevent black people from voting in America.
October 24, 2025 at 6:05 PM
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.
When pressed today, the nominee to be Ambassador to South Africa refuses to oppose reinstituting laws to prevent black people from voting in America.
No one is doing it better right now. On an awkward ass career run.
Tim Pool nodding at "where's the empathy for Donald Trump?" before seeming to realize that Adam Friedland is mocking them is too good
September 24, 2025 at 1:24 AM
No one is doing it better right now. On an awkward ass career run.
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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
The Average CEO Now Makes 632 Times More Than a Typical Worker | CEO pay has risen nearly 35% since 2019 in absolute terms, while their median worker pay hasn’t even kept up with the U.S. inflation rate. At Starbucks, the gap between CEO compensation and median worker pay hit 6,666 to 1 last year.
The Average CEO Now Makes 632 Times More Than a Typical Worker - Bucks County Beacon
CEO pay has risen nearly 35 percent since 2019 in absolute terms, while their median worker pay hasn’t even kept up with the U.S. inflation rate.
buckscountybeacon.com
September 1, 2025 at 3:14 PM
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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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.
August 15, 2025 at 11:04 PM
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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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
Who will pay for the $3tn AI building boom? We take a look here: on.ft.com/46StN6Z
August 14, 2025 at 11:03 AM
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
Who will pay for the $3tn AI building boom? We take a look here: on.ft.com/46StN6Z
Well-known strategy
August 2, 2025 at 1:35 AM
Well-known strategy
Have never seen a pristine system designed by deloitte
Here’s a fun fact: Elsa, the FDA’s new disaster AI tool, was developed by Deloitte, a multinational contractor that gave money to Trump’s inaugural fund in 2017 and again in 2025.
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FDA's New Drug Approval AI Is Generating Fake Studies: Report
The AI, dubbed Elsa, is supposed to be making employees better at their jobs.
gizmodo.com
July 25, 2025 at 12:30 AM
Have never seen a pristine system designed by deloitte
like that his reaction is like mine would be, which is "holy shit that's deck, that's rza"
July 25, 2025 at 12:30 AM
like that his reaction is like mine would be, which is "holy shit that's deck, that's rza"
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."
*silence*
Me, the vice president: "ah yes, this is power. This is influence."
June 30, 2025 at 2:10 AM
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."
*silence*
Me, the vice president: "ah yes, this is power. This is influence."
We stood with David Huerta in Pennsylvania today and we'll continue to stand with him under he's fully exonerated.
June 10, 2025 at 12:59 AM
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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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.
And here in NYC today another shocking escalation by Trump.
The law *explicitly allows* unannounced visits by congressmembers to federal facilities.
This is yet another breach of democratic norms by an increasingly rogue administration. Don't normalize this.
The law *explicitly allows* unannounced visits by congressmembers to federal facilities.
This is yet another breach of democratic norms by an increasingly rogue administration. Don't normalize this.
2 New York Representatives Are Denied Access to ICE Facility
www.nytimes.com
June 9, 2025 at 3:11 AM
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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The California Labor Movement stands in strong solidarity with our brother David Huerta. We demand his immediate release! @seiuca.bsky.social
June 6, 2025 at 11:23 PM
The California Labor Movement stands in strong solidarity with our brother David Huerta. We demand his immediate release! @seiuca.bsky.social
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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!
Let’s be clear: ICE injured and detained the president of SEIU California for peacefully observing.
ICE picked the wrong side. The wrong state. The wrong person. and the wrong union. David Huerta stood up. And now 750,000 SEIU workers are standing up behind him.
seiuca.org/press-releas...
ICE picked the wrong side. The wrong state. The wrong person. and the wrong union. David Huerta stood up. And now 750,000 SEIU workers are standing up behind him.
seiuca.org/press-releas...
SEIU California | SEIU California President David Huerta Injured, Detained at ICE Raid in Los Angeles
We are proud of President Huerta’s righteous participation as a community observer, in keeping with his long history of advocating for immigrant workers and with the highest values of our movement…
seiuca.org
June 6, 2025 at 10:36 PM
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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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.
Let’s be clear: ICE injured and detained the president of SEIU California for peacefully observing.
ICE picked the wrong side. The wrong state. The wrong person. and the wrong union. David Huerta stood up. And now 750,000 SEIU workers are standing up behind him.
seiuca.org/press-releas...
ICE picked the wrong side. The wrong state. The wrong person. and the wrong union. David Huerta stood up. And now 750,000 SEIU workers are standing up behind him.
seiuca.org/press-releas...
SEIU California | SEIU California President David Huerta Injured, Detained at ICE Raid in Los Angeles
We are proud of President Huerta’s righteous participation as a community observer, in keeping with his long history of advocating for immigrant workers and with the highest values of our movement…
seiuca.org
June 6, 2025 at 10:38 PM
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.
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.
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.
This is police and ICE brutality and we cannot sit back and just let it happen.
Not in Los Angeles.
Not in Los Angeles.
June 6, 2025 at 10:54 PM
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.
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.
Having morals beyond following polls isn't rocket science. Stand for something, stick with something. I'm begging people.
Further, it turns out (shocker) that having Kilmar Abrego/abduction/CECOT in the news made Trump's approval rating on immigration go underwater and having him out of the news allowed them to rebound.
June 5, 2025 at 12:11 AM
Having morals beyond following polls isn't rocket science. Stand for something, stick with something. I'm begging people.
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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.
Josh Barro: "When I look at policies in New York that stand in the way of Abundance, very often if you look under the hood, you eventually find a labor union at the end that's the driver"
June 4, 2025 at 7:52 PM
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.
Call it Project Lose Again
EXCLUSIVE: A top Democratic strategist has launched new policy research and messaging hub, called Searchlight, with a goal of pushing the party toward the most effective, broadly popular positions.
Dems are quietly forming a think tank to help them win again
Searchlight, a name inspired by the birthplace of Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, comes at a precarious moment for a Democratic Party.
www.politico.com
June 4, 2025 at 12:16 AM
Call it Project Lose Again
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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.
But the board's plan to hold a virtual-only meeting for the vote could run afoul of a Pennsylvania transparency law.
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.
www.spotlightpa.org
May 7, 2025 at 1:36 PM
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.
But the board's plan to hold a virtual-only meeting for the vote could run afoul of a Pennsylvania transparency law.