Provost McCauley sent an email calling our demand for a #LivingWage unreasonable. It takes real chutzpah for someone making nearly 25 times (!!) our salary to say we're asking for too much.
Both McCauley and @UMich should be ashamed. She should try living in Ann Arbor on $24k.
Over 4,100 Michigan Medicine #nurses voted, and 96% of them voted YES to authorize a #ULPstrike. That is both a higher number of voters and a higher % of yes votes than the last time we were pushed to this point in 2018. (🧵)
#UnionStrong#Solidarity
Socially speaking, one of the hardest things about this point in the pandemic has been realizing that not only have we squandered an opportinity to address inequities and improve so many aspects of society, we seem to have regressed to an even more selfish state than before.
Hearing truly harrowing stories of unsafe and unacceptable working and caring conditions from @umpncStrong nurses at their rally.
@umichmedicine needs to take the nurses' demands seriously! Safe staffing saves lives.
“It’s time for our institution to step up and recognize that the glowing reputation our institution has is because of the hands who touch our patients every day. We don’t have enough hands right now.”
NP at Rogel Cancer Center speaking about new treatment for metastatic melanoma pts. They receive an immunotherapy treatment that has severe and dangerous side effects.
Michigan Medicine has left their nurses with no resort but to sue them. Their refusal to discuss workloads shows how little they care about patient safety, healthcare workers' exhaustion or living up to their own claims of providing "compassionate care."
https://t.co/kbNUfEp0ep
Good coverage from MLive regarding MM's refusal to bargain over safe nurse-to-patient ratios. So very much hinges on having enough well-trained and well-treated nurses. The best cure in the world only works if someone is there to deliver it.
https://t.co/jQtVeA69W7