The contract for 6,200 nurses at Michigan Medicine expired on June 30 and the union, the MNA-UMPNC, is preventing the mass mobilization of the membership in strike action to prevent the University of Michigan affiliated health care system from imposing a new four-year concessionary agreement.
The contract for 6,200 nurses at the University of Michigan hospital and medical school expired on Thursday night with the union taking no measures to advance the fight against the provocative posture of management and the intolerable working conditions that are making patient care unsafe.
Nurses and other health care workers across the nation are rising up in a growing wave of strikes and protests against understaffing, lack of crucial supplies, exhausting workloads and the erosion of their living standards by the sharp rise in inflation.