Essential Workers in Pennsylvania turned out to elect leaders who will fight to raise wages, lower costs, and deliver real results for hardworking families
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: November 15, 2022
Contact: scott.vogel@seiuhcpa.org
Philadelphia, PA – 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 – scroll below to see the complete list of victors.
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.”
Statewide
Governor – Josh Shapiro
LT Governor – Austin T
U.S. Senator – John Fetterman
Congress
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
PA State Senate
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
PA House
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
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