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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 

and Graham 

Crackers:

U-M nurses describe cuts to 

patient care

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