They say they’re joining hourly workers from around the country from a wide range of industries “who are standing up to demand fair pay and treatment.”

18 walkout aims to achieve “ fair pay, safer staffing, better working conditions, and the right to form their union without retaliation or interference,” organizers said. UPMC officials declined to comment on the planned strike and allegations of unfair pay and retaliation. “ UPMC had their best year on record during the pandemic, yet the workers who kept UPMC hospitals running in the middle of a global public health crisis didn’t even receive hazard pay. “I’m proud of these workers - they’re standing up to demand fair pay and treatment,” said state Sen. She was among a couple dozen employees, elected officials, faith-based leaders and union supporters at a small rally and news conference outside of UPMC’s corporate headquarters at the U.S. “We’re owed this and so much more and I will continue organizing with my co-workers for the pay, safer staffing and union rights we deserve.”Ĭentofanti plans to be among an unknown number of UPMC employees planning a one-day strike later this month in the name of better wages, benefits and treatment from the Downtown Pittsburgh-based health care and insurance system, organizers announced Friday. You better believe I will cash this $500 check because we have already worked to make UPMC a billion in profit. “Paying us a living wage of $20/hour would mean $400 more in every single paycheck. “There was no ‘thank you pay’ until we started organizing to strike,” Juilia Centofanti, a pharmacy technician at UPMC Children’s Hospital in Pittsburgh’s Lawrenceville neighborhood, said Friday. UPMC’s recent move to dole out $500 bonuses did little to quell mounting concerns among some workers who accuse the health care giant of trying to squash their efforts to unionize.

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