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MARQUETTE Ishpeming Public Schools has revised its 2021 Back To School Preparedness and Response Plan to continue dealing with the COVID-19 pandemic.
“We want to give flexibility to teachers to have the option of teaching remotely, either from their home or from their classroom,” IPS Superintendent Carrie Meyer said during Monday’s board of education meeting. “It previously was in the plan that they would report to their classrooms, but with the COVID pandemic, our team felt that it was best to give options.”
The board voted to provide that flexibility in the plan as well as another update regarding remote learning and connectivity at Ishpeming High/Middle School.
Staff at Aspirus Keweenaw Hospital in the Upper Peninsula will be joining Michigan’s largest nurses’ union.
The health care workers tallied their mail-in votes this week, with 35 voting in favor of joining the Michigan Nurses Association, and 17 voting against.
Kelly Engle, who’s been a nurse at the hospital for 10 years, says nurses and administrators alike were overwhelmed in the spring when decisions had to be made about caring for COVID-19 patients.
“Their plates were full,” she said of administrators. “And I just felt like nurses you know, not just in our hospital, but everywhere suddenly really needed a seat at that doggone table.”
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The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) provided guidance on the propriety of mail or manual ballot elections.
Aspirus Keweenaw, 370 NLRB No. 45 (Nov. 9, 2020). In this case, the NLRB set forth the considerations regional directors should weigh in determining whether an election should be conducted by mail ballot, as opposed to an in-person manual ballot, because of the COVID-19-related conditions. The NLRB’s longstanding policy strongly favors manual elections; however, since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, it has permitted mail-ballot elections under an “extraordinary circumstances” exception to the manual ballot preference. The decision outlines six situations related to the COVID-19 pandemic that, when at least one is present, normally will suggest the propriety of conducting an election by mail, rather than manual, ballot. Those circumstances are:
Tuesday, December 22, 2020
1. The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) provided guidance on the propriety of mail or manual ballot elections.
Aspirus Keweenaw, 370 NLRB No. 45 (Nov. 9, 2020). In this case, the NLRB set forth the considerations regional directors should weigh in determining whether an election should be conducted by mail ballot, as opposed to an in-person manual ballot, because of the COVID-19-related conditions. The NLRB’s longstanding policy strongly favors manual elections; however, since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, it has permitted mail-ballot elections under an “extraordinary circumstances” exception to the manual ballot preference. The decision outlines six situations related to the COVID-19 pandemic that, when at least one is present, normally will suggest the propriety of conducting an election by mail, rather than manual, ballot. Those circumstances are: