2022 Labor Relations News Archive
Nurses represented by the University of Michigan Professional Nurses Council (UMPNC) have voted to approve a four-year contract with University of Michigan Health.
The competitive employment agreement provides a four-year, $273 million package that includes a 22.5% raise over the course of the contract, a $5,000 bonus for each nurse, elimination of mandatory overtime and expanded staffing guidelines.
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Earlier this week, Michigan Medicine shared an updated proposal package with MNA/UMPNC, which included a new financial offer.
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Contract negotiations continued over the past two weeks as representatives from Michigan Medicine and MNA/UMPNC exchanged counterproposals on a variety of topic. This week's update includes additional FAQs on some of the items included in Michigan Medicine's proposals.
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This week, Michigan Medicine and MNA/UMPNC continued negotiations. The following FAQ is designed to address questions from our nurses regarding current MNA/UMPNC negotiations.
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Over the past three months, representatives from Michigan Medicine and MNA/UMPNC have been meeting to negotiate a new contract for nurses at Michigan Medicine. Our hope is that we can reach an agreement very soon to limit the disruption of having an expired contract. The current contract expired on June 30, 2022. This week's update includes details of the current Michigan Medicine proposal, which increases our investment in our nursing teams, and further addresses operational improvements.
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Michigan Medicine passed another package of updated proposals to MNA/UMPNC for consideration. This package included proposals on staffing and scheduling, overtime, and paid time off. Michigan Medicine also provided an updated proposal on items for NPs and APRNs.
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Negotiations continued over the last two weeks as Michigan Medicine and MNA/UMPNC representatives met to review the status of current proposals and continue discussions.
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This week's update includes information about a few tentative agreements that the teams reached and also provides further clarification on Michigan Medicine's proposal regarding CSR.
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After two weeks of 5-day negotiations, representatives from Michigan Medicine and MNA/UMPNC made progress in a few key areas. This week's update includes information on what is in the most recent Michigan Medicine package proposal.
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This week marked the start of a two-week period of bargaining sessions, in which Michigan Medicine and MNA/UMPNC are scheduled to meet five days a week, with a goal of reaching a tentative agreement by Friday, May 20.
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Similar to last week’s negotiating sessions, Michigan Medicine received additional proposals from MNA/UMPNC this week on various topics including staffing and scheduling, shift and weekend premiums, workload review, and charge nurse guidelines.
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This week, UMPNC provided their initial counterproposals and additional proposals to Michigan Medicine.
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Conversations during this week’s negotiations focused heavily on staffing.
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This week, both negotiating teams spent majority of the bargaining sessions in separate caucuses with their own team, reviewing proposals received from the other team and preparing counterproposals.
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A representative from the Michigan Medicine Nursing Recruitment and Retention team joined the negotiation teams on Thursday to share information on staffing levels.
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This week’s discussions focused primarily on staffing and a proposal submitted by MNA/UMPNC regarding mandatory nurse-to-patient staffing ratios which is a key component in staffing discussions. The University is currently reviewing the proposal to determine how it impacts the rest of the contract.
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This week, Dr. David Miller and Paul Castillo joined the negotiating teams to speak to Michigan Medicine’s mission and share an overview of the organization’s current financial state.
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Earlier this week, the Michigan Medicine bargaining team met with representatives from the Michigan Nurses Association/University of Michigan Professional Nurse Council to begin negotiating a new collective bargaining agreement. The goal for Michigan Medicine is to work collaboratively with MNA/UMPNC representatives to develop a new contract that continues supporting our nurses as they provide the highest quality and safest care for our patients.
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