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ACADEMICS
ACADEMICS
Over
the
course
of
two
years,
three
different
unions
— the University of Michigan
Professional
Nurse
Council,
the
Lecturers’
Employee
Organization
and
Graduate
Employees’ Organization — have
threatened to strike in response to
budget cuts and staffing levels at
the University.
LEO President Ian Robinson
said these incidents are a reaction
to a broader shift at the University,
related primarily to what Robinson
sees as a prioritization of financial
concerns.
“It’s a new model that is taking
place at the University,” Robinson
said. “It is a model that has moved
from focusing on the interests
of the public to profit. Really the
birth of these unions is the result
of this new model. These strikes
are the same fight as the fight that
made these unions form.”
As
the
University
of
Michigan
Professional
Nurse
Councilprepares to vote on the
tentative contract agreement with
the University after 100 days of
bargaining and an impending
strike, UMPNC Chief Grievance
Chair John Armelagos said the
demands and concerns of nurses
at the University have not changed
since the union’s formation in 1974.
The primary motivation behind
the union’s formation was a need
to improve working conditions.
Staff were exposed to an unlimited
number of consecutive work days,
multiple shift changes within a
week and mandatory overtime.
Though in current negotiations
with Michigan Medicine, nurses
were able to reach a tentative
contract
agreement
without
having
to implement work stoppage, in
1981 and 1989 hundreds of nurses
were forced to walk the picket
line before they could come to a
satisfactory agreement with the
administration. In ’81 the nurses
went on a 3-week strike and in ’89
the nurses went on a 19-day strike.
Armelagos said he participated
in the strike of ’89.
“I was active on the picket
line,” Armelagos said. “The main
reason we picketed was due to
mandatory
overtime.
Nurses
were subjected to working in an
unlimited fashion. The hours that
nurses were expected to work
were excessive.”
Anne
Jackson,
the
onsite
representative for the ambulatory
care services at the University,
said she sees connections between
the strikes of ’81 and ’89 and
nurses’ demands for their current
contract.
“The
common
thread
is
nursing as patient care advocates
attempting to do the best we can as
registered nurses,” Jackson said.
“’81 was about nurses gaining more
professional economy. In ’89 it was
about nurses being too exhausted
to deliver safe care. Today, the
main issue is also patient care.”
Jackson, who joined as a
Gérard
Mourou,
an
A.
D.
Moore
distinguished
University professor emeritus
in the Electrical Engineering
and
Computer
Science
Department, received a Nobel
Prize in physics on Tuesday for
pioneering the field of high-
speed and high-intensity lasers.
The University of Michigan
ranks
among
the
top
50
universities in the world with
the most Nobel Prize winners.
Mourou served as a founding
director at the Center for
Ultrafast
Optical
Science,
a
research
facility
within
the College of Engineering
that studies the application
of
ultrashort
laser
pulses
in a variety of disciplines.
Mourou
is
an
established
expert
in
his
field,
and
has
received
the
Wood
Prize from the Optical Society
of America in 1995 as well as
the Edgerton Prize from the
International Society for Optics
and Phonics in 1997, among
other accomplishments, such
as the 2005 Willis E. Lamb
Awardfor Laser Science and
Quantum Optics and Charles
Hard Townes Award also by
the Optical Society of America
in 2009.
Mourou shares half of the
The
University
of
Michigan’s Central Student
Government
convened
Tuesday night to complete an
Intergroup Relations training,
address community concerns,
and confirm election results.
The Program on Intergroup
Relations, a social justice
education
program
on
campus,
facilitates
workshops
for
various
clubs and organizations to
teach
participants
about
empathetic communication in
a multicultural society.
“Today’s training, common
ground training, is critical
to our success in helping
CSG become more inclusive
and ensuring that we better
understand intersectionality
and the role of identities in
the policy work in efficacy
we do,” CSG President Daniel
Greene, a Public Policy senior,
said.
CSG also approved several
new elected students at the
meeting. Elizabeth Fakhoury,
a
Redistricting proposal
on upcoming ballot to
address gerrymandering
University labor unions draw parallels with past strikes
RESEARCH
STUDENT GOVERNMENT
RESEARCH
The citizen-initiated proposition calls for independent
commission, meets mixed reviews from students
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Recent slew of near-strikes a reaction to “new model” at U-M prioritizing profit over public, union president says
University professor awarded
Nobel Prize work in physics
CSG confirms newly elected
student positions, resolutions
UHS launches new service to expand
healthcare to transgender students
Professor Gerard Mourou pioneered field for high-speed lasers
In eighth assembly meeting, community concerns including
requiring representatives to hold monthly office hours
Trans Care Team to provide hormone therapy, HIV prevention
PRASHANTH PANICKER/Daily
CSG representatives rearrange their seating for a group dialogue at the Central Student Government meeting Tuesday.
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ZACK BLUMBERG
For the Daily
See CSG, Page 2A
University Health Service
announced a new service in
the Trans Care Department
called the Trans Care Team,
which will provide hormone
therapy for gender affirmation,
prescriptions
to
prevent
HIV, and other services and
resources for the University
of
Michigan
transgender
community. The team is a
group of trained health care
providers that provide advice
and general care in addition to
hormone therapy.
UHS Care Manager Diana
Parrish said the new Trans Care
Team is comprised of health
care providers who possess
the knowledge and experience
in caring for transgender and
non-binary students. Prior to
this specialized care team,
insurance coverage and limited
Remote Telemetry
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