At meetings last week, more than 4,000 of the 6,200 nurses at Michigan Medicine voted by 96 percent for safe staffing ratios and an end to mandatory overtime.
We have formed the MMRFC to unite all employees at Michigan Medicine in a common struggle for what we need, not what the hospital or the union says is possible.
The MNA-UMPNC has posted a series of FAQs on its website in advance of the work stoppage authorization vote this week, one of which says that nurses will not receive any strike pay if they vote to walk out at Michigan Medicine to fight for their rights.
The MNA-UMPNC announced at a town hall meeting on Thursday that it was holding a “work stoppage authorization vote” of 6,200 nurses at Michigan Medicine in response to “bad faith bargaining” by the health care system during contract negotiations.
In its latest effort to block strike action by 6,200 Michigan Medicine nurses, who have been working without a contract since July 1, the MNA-UMPNC has filed an unfair labor practices charge and a supporting lawsuit against the University of Michigan.