After months of running an aggressive electoral program in Pennsylvania to engage, mobilize and turn out working people and infrequent voters in communities of color in the election, the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) Pennsylvania State Council formally congratulated Josh Shapiro and Austin Davis on their victory for Governor and Lt. Governor of Pennsylvania, and John Fetterman for his victory in the U.S. Senate race.

“The results of this election show that when working people unite, we win,” said Gabe Morgan, President of the SEIU Pennsylvania State Council and Vice President of 32BJ SEIU.  “Josh Shapiro, Austin Davis and John Fetterman ran an unabashedly pro-Union worker platform, pledging to not just protect union rights but to expand them, ensuring every Pennsylvanian had the opportunity to join or form a union.”

“Doug Mastriano, meanwhile, pledged to turn back the clock on workers by turning Pennsylvania into a right to work state, ending union rights as we know them,” said Steve Catanese, President of SEIU Local 668.  “That, coupled with a campaign platform of election sabotage, white nationalism, and robbing women of their bodily autonomy proved toxic to Pennsylvania voters.”

Success at the top of the ticket were coupled with successes down ballot, including the following SEIU endorsed pro-worker champions:

Governor - Josh Shapiro

LT Governor - Austin T

U.S. Senator - John Fetterman

CD 2 - Brendan Boyle

CD 3 - Dwight Evans

CD 4 - Madeleine Dean

CD 5 - Mary Gay Scanlon

CD 6 - Chrissy Houlihan

CD 7 - Susan Wild

CD 8 - Matt Cartwright

CD 12 - Summer Lee

CD 17 - Christopher Deluzio

SD 2 - Christine Tartaglione

SD 4 - Art Haywood

SD 6 - Frank Farry

SD 10 - Steve Santarsiero

SD 12 - Maria Collett

SD 14 - Nick Miller

SD 16 - Mark Pinsley

SD 18 - Lisa Boscola

SD 22 - Marty Flynn

SD 26 - Timothy Kearney

SD 38 - Lindsey Williams

SD 44 - Katie Muth

HD 1 - Patrick Harkins

HD 2 - Robert Merski

HD 3 - Ryan Bizzarro

HD 16 - Robert Matzie

HD 18 - KC Tomlinson

HD 19 - Aerion Abney

HD 20 - Emily Kinkead

HD 21 - Sara Innamorato

HD 22 - Joshua Siegel

HD 23 - Dan Frankel

HD 24 - Latasha Mayes

HD 25 - Brandon Markosek

HD 26 - Paul Friel

HD 27 - Daniel Deasy, Jr.

HD 29 - Tim Brennan

HD 30 - Arvind Venkat

HD 31 - Perry Warren

HD 32 - Anthony Deluca

HD 33 - Mandy Steele

HD 34 - Summer Lee

HD 35 - Austin Davis

HD 36 - Jessica Benham

HD 38 - Nick Pisciottano

HD 42 - Dan Miller

HD 45 - Anita Kulik

HD 49 - Ismail Smith-Wade-El

HD 53 - Steven Malagari

HD 61 - Liz Hanbridge

HD 70 - Matthew Bradford

HD 74 - Dan Williams

HD 77 - H. Scott Conklin

HD 82 - Paul Takac

HD 95 - Carol Hill-Evans

HD 96 - P. Michael Sturla

HD 103 - Patty Kim

HD 104 - Dave Madsen

HD 105 - Justin Fleming

HD 106 - Thomas Mehaffie

HD 112 - Kyle Mullins

HD 113 - Kyle Donahue

HD 114 - Bridget Malloy Kosierowski

HD 115 - Maureen Madden

HD 118 - James Haddock

HD 120 -- Aaron Kaufer

HD 121 - Eddie Day Pashinski

HD 126 - Mark Rozzi

HD 127 - Manuel Guzman

HD 133 - Jeanne McNeil

HD 135 - Steve Samuelson

HD 136 - Robert Freeman

HD 141 - Tina Davis

HD 146 - Joseph Ciresi

HD 148 - Mary Jo Daley

HD 149 - Tim Briggs

HD 150 - Joseph Webster

HD 152 - Nancy Guenst

HD 153 - Ben Sanchez

HD 154 - Napoleon Nelson

HD 155 - Danielle Friel Otten

HD 156 - Christopher Pielli

HD 157 - Melissa Shusterman

HD 158 - Christina Sappey

HD 159 - Carol Kazeem

HD 161 - Leanne Krueger

HD 164 - Gina Curry

HD 165 - Jennifer O’Mara

HD 166 - Gregory Vitali

HD 167 - Kristine Howard

HD 168 - Lisa Borowski

HD 174 - Ed Nielson

HD 175 - Mary Isaacson

HD 177 - Joseph Hohenstein

HD 179 - Jason Dawkins

HD 181 - Malcolm Kenyatta

HD 184 - Elizabeth Fiedler

HD 185 - Regina Young

HD 186 - Jordan Harris

HD 188 - Rick Krajewski

HD 189 - Tarah Probst

HD 190 - Roni Green

HD 191 - Joanna McClinton

HD 192 - Morgan Cephas

HD 194 - Tarik Khan

HD 195 - Donna Bullock

HD 197 - Danilo Burgos

HD 198 - Darisha Parker

HD 200 - Christopher Rabb

HD 201 - Stephen Kinsey

HD 202 - Jared Solomon

HD 203 - Anthony Bellmon

SEIU PA State Council, which is composed of four major SEIU Locals in Pennsylvania, 32BJ SEIU, SEIU Healthcare Pennsylvania, SEIU Local 668, and the Pennsylvania Joint Board of Workers United, mobilized its member base across the state to support candidates who are fighting to raise wages, lower costs and stand up for hardworking people across the commonwealth. SEIU PA member political organizers knocked on 153,000 doors and made 83,000 phone calls to organize their communities and discuss the issues that were at stake this election.

In total, SEIU Local Unions, State Council and International Union invested more than $6.5 million into Pennsylvania during the election cycle, with key investments into partners who knocked on 244,000 additional doors statewide, 30 legislative races, communications to SEIU members and early general public communications to define anti-worker candidates to voters.

"Union healthcare workers understood the threat to our contracts and our rights. That’s why our members got engaged early in this election, mobilized coworkers and communities in unprecedented numbers, and delivered an overwhelming victory by electing #UnionsForAll champions up and down the ballot,” said Matt Yarnell, President of SEIU Healthcare PA.  “As essential caregivers, we maximized the trust we have with the public to frame the stakes of this election and persuaded conservative and irregular voters to vote not along party or ideological lines, but instead on our shared values of strengthening our communities and building an economy that works for everyone.”

“Essential workers across Pennsylvania have been the backbone of our communities as we fight to build an inclusive future for working families. Our work is essential, our votes are essential, and our rights are essential and we’re proud to congratulate Josh Shapiro, Austin Davis, John Fetterman, and all of the pro-worker leaders down ballot,” said David Melman, President of the Pennsylvania Joint Board of Workers United. “We’re looking forward to working with our newly elected officials on all of their promises as we continue to advocate for the respect, protections, pay, and benefits that we deserve.”

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