The tentative agreement with Michigan Medicine announced on Thursday by the MNA-UMPNC is a betrayal of the months-long struggle by nurses to put an end to intolerable understaffing, mandatory overtime and extended on-call times.
The rally and protest at the University of Michigan Board of Regents meeting on Thursday is the latest diversion by the MNA-UMPNC aimed at preventing Michigan Medicine nurses from uniting with other sections of the working class to fight intolerable conditions at the hospital in Ann Arbor.
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.