Category: Stories
Commonwealth Partners Take a Page From Trump’s White Nationalist Playbook
In a desperate attempt to change the political narrative, failed State Senate candidate and current CEO of the Commonwealth Partners Chamber of Entrepreneurs, Matt Brouillette authored an editorial in The Hill. Brouillette posited, while failing to...
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Matt Brouillette Was A Statewide Disgrace
Labor unions and candidates fighting for workers won impressive victories all across Pennsylvania in last week’s election. As speculation and individuals have started to lay their claim on what it means, it’s possible to have missed another recent...
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Climate Science Denial Returns to Harrisburg
“Who’s funding Greg and who’s funding Commonwealth?” stated State Representative Daryl Metcalfe in disbelief to members of the Commonwealth Foundation and other right-wing front groups. He made the comments walking away from a hearing that took...
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Liberty Justice Center Spams Pennsylvania Workers
It’s not news that the Liberty Justice Center is lying to union members. The organization most known for bankrolling Mark Janus’ lawsuit against AFSCME and then subsequently hiring Mr. Janus as a professional union buster is well known for...
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PA House Speaker to retired teacher: “You don’t really care about the kids”
Pennsylvania House Speaker Rep. Mike Turzai, a close ally of the anti-union Commonwealth Foundation, attended a Harrisburg event with Education Secretary Betsy DeVos this morning. While there, he dismissed dedicated public educators as...
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Welcome Back, Harrisburg
This week, the Pennsylvania House and Senate will reconvene for Fall session. As such, we know the Commonwealth Foundation will be back lobbying, despite their non-profit status, on behalf of their billionaire donors. They will continue their...
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Spotlight on Free To Teach and Keith Williams
The Commonwealth Foundation likes to pretend that they can manipulate and fool educators, but the reality is that they are well aware of the organization and their efforts to bust unions. This anti-union and billionaire-funded front group has...
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Billionaire-Funded Commonwealth Foundation Uses Workers As A Facade, Literally
The Commonwealth Foundation is a front group. More accurately, it consists of a series of front groups. Their efforts to hide who they are and what they do have been exposed over and over. Since last year’s Janus V. AFSCME decision, they have been...
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A year after ‘Janus,’ the Pa. labor movement is as strong as ever
Originally posted by the Pennsylvania Capital-Star at penncapital-star.com on July 3, 2019.By Eric RossoMany opinions were given on the fate of the labor movement almost one year ago.Most of them were some variation on how it had just received a...
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One Year After Janus, Pennsylvania’s Labor Movement Is As Important As Ever
After last year’s Janus decision, Pennsylvania became a hub for anti-union campaigns from billionaire-funded front groups, including the Commonwealth Foundation, the Fairness Center, and Americans for Fair Treatment. Despite their best efforts and...
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Profiting Off The Backs of PA’s Children: Commonwealth Kids LLC Exposed
The Education Income Tax Credit (EITC) has long drained resources from public schools to benefit the rich in Pennsylvania. It has been a constant source of grief for communities, parents, and our public schools and many education advocates have...
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What’s it like to advocate for people to go hungry and create food insecurity in families? Ask @ElizabethBryan apparently.
On @KDKA, our very own @ElizabethBryan
explained the newly proposed changes to a SNAP rule. It'll encourage the tens of thousands of healthy young Pennsylvanians who receive food stamps but don't work to either move toward employment or education. https://t.co/msPJTiqrGj
Read the @PFTLocal3's Medium post about the toxic conditions in our schools, the union's efforts to make schools safe, clean and healthy, and the steps that MUST be taken to fix our school buildings! #FundOurFuture
Our Fight for Healthy Schools
Real Progress, Real Solutions, and the Work Ahead
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