diff --git a/.travis.yml b/.travis.yml
index bc60cab99c..8cade051ee 100644
--- a/.travis.yml
+++ b/.travis.yml
@@ -53,6 +53,7 @@ before_install:
     export FSLOUTPUTTYPE=NIFTI_GZ;
   fi;
 
+- travis_retry pip install --upgrade pytest>=3.4  # Work around pip failure
 - travis_retry pip install -r requirements.txt
 - travis_retry pip install grabbit==0.1.2
 - travis_retry git clone https://github.com/INCF/pybids.git ${HOME}/pybids &&