Unionized Pitt service workers rally for higher wages amid contract negotiations

By Maxine Van Nortwick, Senior Staff Writer • February 25, 2026

In snowy conditions, Pitt service workers rallied on the corner of Bigelow Boulevard and Forbes Avenue to demand better pay and health care benefit packages on Tuesday morning.

Pitt workers agree to new one-year contract

By Sarah George, Staff Writer • March 26, 2025

Pitt service workers finished negotiating a one-year contract at the beginning of March that included a pay raise and various new benefits.

‘We just deserve better’: Pitt service workers frustrated with wage uncertainty amid union negotiations

By Adrienne Cahillane, Contributing Editor • February 25, 2025

Service workers on Pitt’s campus express concerns with wages and staffing amid funding worries after their contracts with Pitt have been extended twice during bargaining.

Editorial | Happy strikesgiving to UPMC workers

By The Pitt News Editorial Board • November 19, 2021

We fully back employees’ push for better treatment, and condemn the insultingly low value to which UPMC holds its employees.