UPMC says it does not have employees
October 22, 2013 11:52 AM By Moriah Balingit / Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Depending on whom you ask, medical giant UPMC either employs more than 50,000 people — or no one at all. On Monday, in one of the first hearings of the city of Pittsburgh’s lawsuit to strip UPMC of its tax-exempt charity status, Common Pleas Read More
Why Are Hospital CEOs Paid So Well?
By Richard Gunderman, 10/16/2013 Can you tell how good a job hospital CEOs are doing by the amount they are paid? A study by investigators at the Harvard School of Public Health this week suggests that the answer is no. Published in the Journal of the American Medical Association: Internal Medicine, the study found no link between Read More
UPMC defends charitable status
October 7, 2013 12:14 am By Andrew McGill / Pittsburgh Post-Gazette UPMC has begun answering the $1.6 billion question — is it really using its 550 acres of tax-free property in Allegheny County for charity? So far, the health care giant’s answer is as clear: You bet we are. In response to a top-to-bottom survey of tax-exempt Read More
NLRB charges UPMC with more than a dozen violations against union-organizing workers
October 2, 2013 1:04 pm By Steve Twedt / Pittsburgh Post-Gazette The National Labor Relations Board has charged UPMC with 19 violations against workers involved in a union-organizing campaign. The charges include unlawfully “threatening, interrogating, and intimidating employees” for union activities, calling police on union representatives who were lawfully on UPMC premises, implying the workers would receive Read More
UPMC execs spin the facts to obscure low wages
September 11, 2013 12:09 am UPMC executives’ efforts to spin the facts can’t mask the reality of the health care giant’s low wages and meager benefits for service workers (“UPMC Provides Superior Benefits to Employees,”Sept. 4 letters). UPMC senior vice president Greg Peaslee’s attempt to obscure service workers’ low wages by lumping their wage rates Read More
Group says UPMC wage scale is harmful
August 22, 2013 12:14 am By Steve Twedt / Pittsburgh Post-Gazette UPMC may be the state’s largest employer with more than 50,000 people on staff locally, but the low wages that many of its service workers earn are eroding Pittsburgh’s middle class, according to a white paper scheduled for release today by Pittsburgh United, a long-standing critic Read More
UPMC, healthcare union take center stage at Labor Day parade
By Mike Wereschagin Published: Monday, September 2, 2013 4:06 p.m. Elected officials join laborers as they make their way down the Boulevard of the Allies for the annual Labor Day Parade in Downtown Monday, September 2, 2013. More than 70,000 participants took part in the padade which is billed as the second largest in the country, behind Read More
UPMC CEO paid $6 million in fiscal year
May 16, 2013, 7:43pm EDT Kris B. Mamula Of the 26 UPMC employees who received more than $1 million, 13 were doctors. UPMC President and CEO Jeffrey Romoff was paid $6.06 million for the year ending June 30, 2012, reflecting a $90,000 raise from the previous fiscal year and leading 26 health system executives in earning more than Read More
