From MLive: KALAMAZOO, MI -- Residents at Western Michigan University Homer Stryker M.D. School of Medicine have reached a contract agreement with the medical school-- one day before they planned to go on strike. This is the first collective bargaining agreement...
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PRESS HIT: MSU Extension employees vote to form union
From WKAR: EAST LANSING, MI - Michigan State University Extension employees are forming a union. More than 70% voted to form two bargaining units. Jeremy Jubenville is a MSU Extension educator in West Michigan and helped lead the unionization efforts. While he said...
PRESS HIT: How proposed tariffs could impact Michiganders
From WILX 10: LANSING, Mich. (WILX) President of the Michigan Farmers Union, Bob Thompson, responded to President Trump’s tariffs by saying, “Donald Trump said he was going to make our grocery bills less expensive, but less than a month into his presidency and heʼs...
PRESS HIT: Doctors’ union: Understaffed DMC hospitals are unsafe for doctors and patients
From Michigan Public: Dr. James Miller is a resident in internal medicine and pediatrics. He said the chronic understaffing means doctors often have to fill in for other staff such as case managers, who help patients get discharged with a plan of care outside the...
PRESS HIT: MSU Extension workers to begin voting to form new union
From WKAR Public Media: Michigan State University Extension workers are launching an effort to form a union. Extension employees have a presence in every Michigan county and act as educators for the agriculture, health and management of natural resources. On January...
PRESS HIT: Dems eye cash bail, ‘second look’ criminal justice reforms in Michigan lame-duck
From Bridge Michigan: LANSING — Michigan lawmakers are contemplating big changes to how courts handle bail during pretrial proceedings and a possible “second look” at prisoners’ existing sentences. The Democratic proposals are among several major criminal justice...