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University of Michigan Professional Nurse Council

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June 13- Bargaining Update
Work redesign and unit reconfiguration can make already stressful working conditions worse for our members; in our proposal, we added...
Jun 13, 2022


June 8- Bargaining Update
Michigan Medicine continues to try and justify their reliance on unfair staffing methods as needing “flexibility,” while our members...
Jun 8, 2022


June 3- Bargaining Update
This week we saw another tragic example of the dangers that nurses face in the workplace. Our team has made a proposal to bring...
Jun 3, 2022


May 26- Bargaining Update
Nancy May, Chief Nurse Executive at University of Michigan Health System, issued a communication asserting that management has not...
May 26, 2022


May 20- Bargaining Update
Today Michigan Medicine Headlines posted an article about how much they “value” Nurse Practitioners and Physician Assistants as a “team”...
May 20, 2022


May 13- Bargaining Update
Management came to the table this week to communicate that they have no interest in discussing staffing ratios and made the outrageous...
May 13, 2022


May 11- Bargaining Update
While Michigan Medicine is using Nurse’s Week to solicit donations from the public, management came to the table this week to communicate...
May 11, 2022


May 5- Bargaining Update
Despite 7 weeks of bargaining, management still hasn’t made any proposals for economic improvements beyond their 3% wage increase that...
May 5, 2022


May 3- Bargaining Update
Today your bargaining team presented our workplace safety proposal, another high priority for our members. This proposal covers a broad...
May 3, 2022


April 28- Bargaining Update
This week your bargaining team demanded that management agree to contract provisions that protect and improve employee and retiree...
Apr 28, 2022


April 26- Bargaining Update
While management failed to make any improvements to their original proposal, we introduced our wage adjustment proposal and passed our...
Apr 26, 2022


April 21- Bargaining Update
Management requested “examples” of unsafe staffing, the dangers of mandatory overtime, and problems with high turnover. Even though in...
Apr 22, 2022


April 19- Bargaining Update
Our latest discussions with management centered on one of the highest priority issues for our members: the current abuse of mandatory...
Apr 19, 2022

April 14- Bargaining Update
Management’s incentive proposals still do not go far enough. This week, Michigan Medicine brought us another incentive proposal that did...
Apr 14, 2022

April 8 - Bargaining Update
Your elected MNA-UMPNC bargaining team continued negotiating with Michigan Medicine’s administration on issues related to safe staffing,...
Apr 8, 2022

April 1 - Bargaining Update
We have finished our third week of negotiations. During the first week, management presented a burdensome and concessionary proposal. We...
Apr 1, 2022

March 24- Bargaining Update
Today, Michigan Medicine’s administration put together a presentation to try to explain why they want to make changes to the...
Mar 24, 2022

March 23- Bargaining Update
Our MNA-UMPNC team met Tuesday with management’s bargaining team and, at our request, Dr. David Miller, President of the Health System...
Mar 23, 2022


3.19.22 Incentives Update
Management has made it clear that they will not bargain in good faith with the UMPNC for OA/OT incentives. They refused to meet with our...
Mar 19, 2022


March 17- Bargaining Update
Michigan Medicine is starting to see RED! We spent the morning having management walk us through their 143-page concessionary proposal....
Mar 17, 2022
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