UM medical assistants and behavioral health workers unionize wemu.org - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from wemu.org Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
SEIU Healthcare Michigan is currently collecting card checks from medical assistants, patient service assistants, phlebotomists, emergency service technicians and others at the Ann Arbor health system.
600 additional Michigan Medicine workers join health professionals union mlive.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from mlive.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Behind the university's endorsement of the formation of an AFT-affiliated union of diagnostic technicians at Michigan Medicine stands the collaboration of the official labor organizations with the corporate and financial interests that are profiting from increasingly intolerable conditions for health care workers and working class patients.
While rank-and-file graduate students have shown important courage in defying aggressive threats by the University, they face urgent political challenges above all, from their own union leadership.