An OPEIU International Representative since 1983, Patricia Priloh was born and has worked in Brownsville, Pennsylvania most of her life. It is where she married and had three daughters, one stepdaughter and nine grandchildren and three greatgrandchildren. Plus, it’s where she leads OPEIU Local 457.
Priloh graduated from St. Francis Hospital School of Nursing in Pittsburgh in 1959.
While working as a registered nurse at Centerville Clinic in Centerville, Pa., she joined Local 457. Ultimately, she was elected in 1980 to the position of President, a title she still holds today.
Over the years, Priloh has worked as a volunteer on many OPEIU organizing campaigns, mostly involving hospitals and health care workers.