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.
Social workers are increasingly pressured to see as many patients as possible, focusing on providing resources for one identified problem, with no time to assess for other issues. Social workers are in an untenable position of working mainly to meet the institution’s financial goals. This needs to change.
This year, there will not be merit raises tied to your evaluations. Instead of getting merit raises determined by supervisors, we will get a union-negotiated raise!
We will be beginning our discussion of raises with management at the bargaining table on July 10th. The bargaining team will say:
The prioritization of insurance billing as a productivity metric is quickly leading to a crisis of lower quality patient care and burnout amongst healthcare providers. Although metrics like these have been in place for a few years now, in 2023, social workers at the University of Michigan Medical Group (UMMG) were told that the rigidity of these metrics would be increased.