Updates

National Board Forces MMC to Agree to Settlement Stating it Won’t Coerce or Threaten Nurses for Raising Concerns About Their Working Conditions

12/5/2019

In July our union filed an unfair labor practice charge with the National Labor Relations Board (the NLRB), a federal government agency that enforces the rights of workers to unionize.

We asserted that, among other things, the Medical Center had violated federal law by threatening to discipline a nurse who had made legally protected complaints about excessive hours of work.

After investigating the charge at length the NLRB concluded that the charge had merit and as a result the Medical Center agreed to a settlement. The settlement requires that the Medical Center post a notice for 60 days that states as follows:

Maternity Nurses WIN

11/12/2019

Solidarity prevails in on-call, Q3 weekends, and weekend PTO coverage issues

by Sarah Rooks, BSN, RNC

Maternity nurses recently stood together in solidarity and negotiated with management regarding a departmental on-call issue. Because of our high membership numbers and departmental engagement in our union, we were able to bargain with management to reach an agreement, which resolved the on-call issue.

TCMNA Leadership Election Results

5/30/2019

On Wednesday, May 29th, Traverse City Munson Nurses Association (TCMNA) voted to elect our first leadership team at MMC! Below are the list of candidates who have been successfully elected by our membership. We want to congratulate them and wish them luck in their upcoming terms.

In solidarity,
Your Elected RN Bargaining Team.

President: Carolyn Moss
Vice President: Jason Judd
Grievance Chair: James Walker
Membership Chair/Treasurer: Elise Hollenbeck
Secretary: Barb Mrozinski
Community Advocacy Coordinator: Eleanor Brockway
Nurse Practitioner Representative: Cheryl Vorpagel
Bylaws Committee: Elizabeth Bunek, Carolyn Taratula, Spencer Carey
Nominations Committee: Dagmar Cunningham, Carol Lovely, Kelly Lambert
MNA Delegate: Carolyn Taratula

Stewards:
A2: Shannon Gillespie
A3: Melissa Boals
A4: Steve Tituskin
A6: Tracy Worden
A7: Abigail O’Brien
B2: Andrea Tomei
B3: Jeff Challender
B3S: Tommi Sheehan
B4: Danielle Kempf
C3: Tina Dzikowicz
C1R: Pattie McGillivary
Clinical Quality: Tanya Jenkins
D6: David Feres
ED: Rachel Stone Gourley
ICU: Michele Nugent
Maternity: Sharon Kim Crawford
NICU: Beth Fenchel
PACU: Mercy Ferrer
Pool: Aeryn Pattinson
OR: Victoria Dixon
UM Dept/PT Care: Karen Stewart
VAST: Caroline Kulczyk

Munson May Newsletter

5/8/2019

Hospital Honors Us on National Nurses Week by Sending a Notice to Increase Our Weekend Shift Requirements

As those of you who attended a contract ratification meeting know, our bargaining team spent many months during negotiations pushing back on management’s scheduling demands. During this time, our team was often chastised by management for not “trusting” that they would always do the right thing for nurses regardless of a contract.

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