Wolf criticizes UPMC wages; health giant suggests union motivations
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Source: Trib Live
By Brad Bumsted and Adam Smeltz
HARRISBURG — UPMC's treatment of its employees “doesn't give you a warm and fuzzy feeling” as the salaries and benefits of its frontline workers lag, Gov. Tom Wolf said Monday.
“I would not be treating my employees the way they treat theirs,” Wolf said in an interview with the Tribune-Review.
He provided no figures for UPMC salaries. He said he heard “anecdotal stories” in the 2014 campaign from UPMC workers that “they couldn't even afford their own benefits.”
Wolf did not specify whether he believes UPMC should be unionized but said the Downtown-based nonprofit “should treat their employees better.”
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Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf answers questions in his office in Harrisburg on April 13, 2015.
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The largest nongovernmental employer in Pennsylvania!
Meanwhile the former Gov and new billionaire Gov in NE were against raising the minimum wage. The voters statewide did it anyway.
