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For decades, United States Steel was this city’s dominant employer, but now the biggest employer is the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, with its 22 hospitals and 62,000 workers.
 
 
A Union Aims at Pittsburgh’s Biggest Employer – New York Times
 

With UPMC digging in its heels, saying no way will they negotiate with Highmark, two lawmakers say it’s time for the state legislature to act with legislation
 
Senators Offer Bi-Partisan Bill To Give Highmark Customers Access To UPMC

The National Labor Relations Board has asked a federal judge to force UPMC to turn over documents relating to whether or not UPMC is a single-employer and not merely a holding company with no employees as the non-profit corporation contends.
 
NLRB asks federal judge to force UPMC to produce documents in unfair labor practices complaint

“According to DePasquale, there are some worries that the tobacco settlement funds given to UPMC are being used in their PR war with competitors.”
 
DePasquale Launches Audit of Pittsburgh Hospital Research Programs – WESA

“That would help Ms. Poston because, in a modern equivalent of owing her soul to the company store, she has $15,000 in medical bills that are due to her employer. ”
Union sees national focus in UPMC organizing effort

Workforce diversity has been closely associated with reduced health care disparities and better patient care. If patient care is UPMC’s top priority, it should be doing everything it can to promote a diverse workforce.
UPMC vs. fair hiring

“I know I’m not going to make millions of dollars at what I do, but as the years go by I should be making enough to retire on. At less than $13 an hour, you can’t afford to retire; you have to get another job” Christoria Hughes, UPMC Worker
 
Pittsburgh’s Largest Employer Draws Hundreds Of Protesters Over ‘Poverty’ Wages

Talk to UPMC workers at one of their many protests over the past few months, and they’ve likely told you they’ve been standing outside chanting because their wages are too low, their medical debt is too high and their employer won’t let them unionize.
 
Uniting in Protest: Criticism of UPMC has stretched beyond its own workers

Today clergy members of the Pennsylvania Interfaith Impact Network held a protest against UPMC attempting to get fair wages for employees.
 
10 Clergy Members Arrested During UPMC Protest
 

And when the marchers – nurses from Altoona and their supporters from there and Pittsburgh – turned onto Grant Street and started down the block in front of the UPMC tower Thursday, it galvanized the mid-city afternoon.
 
Nurses march at UPMC HQ