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Pittsburgh City Council

Downtown TRID amendment would guard service workers from layoffs but require them to give up the right to strike.

Written by Amy Whipple

The legislation was changed after council’s June 3 committee meeting to include a requirement to pay a prevailing wage and service employee protections as negotiated by the 32BJ branch of the Service Employees International Union. 

Developers that receive financial distributions of $100,000 or more will have to pay at least the prevailing wage to covered employees. This matches the city’s statute for its own subsidy agreements.

Another condition of the financing mandates that employers have to prevent or mitigate the displacement of building service employees — such as security officers, custodians, and maintenance workers — currently employed at the property.

Employers in those properties will also be required to have a valid collective bargaining agreement or union contract. Those agreements, however, must include a provision prohibiting “picketing, work stoppages, boycotts, or other economic interference” until financial recovery is complete. Instead, all disputes must be submitted to final and binding arbitration.

If approved, the TRID would be in effect for 40 years, though council would individually approve each 20-year bond related to it. The first, for $50 million, is expected to be in front of council before the end of the year.

Council voted six to three to move forward with the TRID. If it passes council’s final vote, scheduled for next week, the proposal will go before county council, the school board and Pittsburgh Regional Transit’s board.

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Economic Development
Governments:
Pittsburgh City Council
Public meetings:
City Council · July 21, 2026
Sources:
Resolution 2026-0531 — authorizing the adoption of the Downtown Pittsburgh Transit Revitalization Investment District Implementation Plan and…

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