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WHEREAS, Pittsburgh is a city with a rich history of working people standing together to form unions in order to create good, family-sustaining jobs building our historic, 20th century middle class in the process; and
WHEREAS, Pittsburgh is a cornerstone in the history of America's middle class, the home of the Great Steel Strike of 1919 and the Homestead Strike of 1892, a town where our grandmothers and grandfathers struggled with the region's largest employers to create an equitable and just society for themselves and for their children; and
WHEREAS, the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, now the region's largest employer, as well as the largest healthcare system and recipient of tax-payer supported charitable tax-exemptions in the City, has a responsibility to our community to live up to our shared economic values; and
WHEREAS, last summer workers faced an aggressive and hostile anti-union campaign waged by UPMC executives and managers to harass and intimidate its employees who were standing together with their co-workers to have a voice on the job and create middle class jobs for themselves and all working people in Pittsburgh. UPMC officials declared the allegations of violations of workers' rights to form a union false and “a complete fabrication”; and
WHEREAS, after a seven month-long investigation Region 6 of the National Labor Relations Board filed over 80 charges of alleged violations of Federal Labor Law against UPMC executives and managers, which included cases of workers being fired, unfairly disciplined, surveilled, and silenced after they talked about the union with their co-workers-they were told they could not speak about the union on or off the clock at work, or even in their own homes; and
WHEREAS, UPMC conceded, agreeing to obey the law, respect the rights of workers to form a union free from harassment and intimidation, rescind any policies that do not follow the law, expunge the records of disciplined workers, and r...
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