Our sibling union the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) have announced they will strike on Tuesday, October 15th if they are unable to reach a fair agreement with management.
There is a high turnover rate amongst new exercise physiologists. Much of our time is spent training new staff quickly.
On Tuesday, UMMAP leadership filed an Unfair Labor Practice charge with the Michigan Employment Relations Commission against Michigan Medicine/University of Michigan, alleging that the hospital system repeatedly engaged in bad faith bargaining and has illegally censored employee speech in a bid to crack down on dissent.
Our bargaining team made a significant negotiations move on Wednesday, proposing to package all outstanding non-economic contract items together to greatly speed up the bargaining process and shift negotiations to salary and other economic items.
Each one of us is a part of a complex web that is outstanding comprehensive patient care. We make that happen because we are dedicated professionals!
As Michigan Medicine management continues to drag its feet in responding to our fair and reasonable salary proposal, UMMAP bargainers attempted to move several proposals forward on Wednesday to get us closer to a finalized collective bargaining agreement.
Michigan Medicine management is yet to respond to the salary proposal we presented in July, but negotiations on non-economic issues progressed on Wednesday with four more tentative agreements reached.
We’re being treated like second class citizens. Respiratory Therapists were told that they were lucky to have jobs during COVID! It’s time to put more pressure on the administration!
That was the message Wednesday when the UMMAP bargaining team presented the outline of our salary proposal to University of Michigan leadership at the bargaining table.
Our employer is profitable and has significant reserves, and yet employees have worked under low and stagnant wages. Other unions have secured strong contracts in recent years, and we expect to be treated the same. The time is now for leadership to pay us what we’re worth.
We reached a milestone in bargaining last week. We expect our final contract to have 54 articles, based on what’s currently been proposed by both us and management.
After reaching tentative agreements last week on Reduction in Force, Committees and Bulletin Boards, we now have reached 29 TA’s with management. This means we are more than halfway to our first collective bargaining agreement.