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  • UPMC workers won $15, and we’re not stopping!

    UPMC hospital workers just won a huge victory for the city of Pittsburgh – the largest wage raise from a private employer in the country. UPMC executives said it wasn’t possible, but we proved that by standing together we can win real changes for our families. Are we stopping now? Heck, no! $15 is a […]

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  • UPMC Workers React To $15 Win

    “UPMC executives said they would never pay workers $15 an hour, but hospital workers came together to stand up for our rights and for better pay, and we won the raises our families and communities need and deserve,” said Leslie Poston who works at UPMC Presbyterian and is paid $13/hour. “Our union has lifted up […]

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  • Speak Out Against UPMC in Pleasant Hills

    UPDATE: UPMC has delayed the hearing. We’ll update here when it’s rescheduled.  Click here to contact us and stay connected on this important issue facing our community. For years, UPMC has tried to bully its way to a monopoly on care. Now, the healthcare giant is trying to muscle into Pleasant Hills. UPMC wants to […]

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  • UPMC worker Lou Berry is heading to The White House!

    It’s not every day you get invited to the White House. On Wednesday, October 7, Lou Berry, a local resident and housekeeper at UPMC Montefiore will head to Washington, D.C. for the White House Summit on Worker Voice convened by President Obama. As the White House website notes, “changing your workplace starts with a conversation.” […]

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  • UPMC asks Pleasant Hills to postpone hearing on proposed hospital – Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

    The hearing had been scheduled for Tuesday, but now could be delayed 60 days. UPMC wants to build a 300,000-square-foot hospital on an 80-acre tract off Route 51, but the borough’s land use ordinance does not include a provision for a hospital. Such zoning omissions rarely have withstood legal challenge.
     
    UPMC asks Pleasant Hills to postpone hearing on proposed hospital
     
     

  • Pittsburgh councilman calls UPMC's wages 'national disgrace'

    Taking square aim at Pittsburgh’s large healthcare and education nonprofits, City Councilman Ricky Burgess drew comparisons to plantations, sharecroppers and “slave wages” Tuesday when he delivered the report of his Wage Review Committee to his colleagues.
     
    Pittsburgh councilman calls UPMC’s wages ‘national disgrace’

  • As Pittsburgh Grapples With A Changing Workforce, The Fight For 15 Comes To Town

    The tallest building in Pittsburgh owes its title to the industrial giant that made the city famous. But instead of its floundering namesake, the U.S. Steel Tower now displays the initials of a different sort of employer: the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, or UPMC.
     
    As Pittsburgh Grapples With A Changing Workforce, The Fight For 15 Comes To Town
     

  • City Health Care And Service Workers Testify For Increased Wages – WESA

    Dozens of health care workers and advocates testified Thursday before the city’s Wage Committee urging it to increase pay for service workers at area hospitals. The committee was formed by City Council as part of the A City For All initiative to, “protect, preserve and expand affordability and livability for low and moderate income residents in the city of Pittsburgh, to establish a Wage Committee that investigates the wages paid to service workers.”
     
     
     
    City Health Care And Service Workers Testify For Increased Wages

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    • UPMC asks Pleasant Hills to postpone hearing on proposed hospital
    • Pittsburgh councilman calls UPMC's wages 'national disgrace'
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    • Worker Voice in America: Taking the Conversation to Pittsburgh

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