UM, nurses union reach tentative contract agreement

Michigan Medicine and the union representing about 6,200 nurses have reached a tentative agreement, more than two months after their contract expired, according to a news release from the union.

The Michigan Nurses Association-University of Michigan Professional Nurse Council had sparred over contract negotiations and what the union called a “refusal to bargain over safe workloads.” The parties had been bargaining since March 15, and the…