Nurses represented by the University of Michigan Professional Nurses Council (UMPNC) voted Friday to ratify a one-year contract, which will delay the need for contract negotiations until 2022.

The contract with the University of Michigan Professional Nurses Council (UMPNC) will be in effect from July 1, 2021 to June 30, 2022. The current contract with the UMPNC was set to expire June 30, 2021.

The new one-year agreement allows negotiations to be delayed, as the COVID-19 pandemic continues.

The UMPNC represents the 6,100 registered nurses at University of Michigan hospitals, clinics and other health care facilities.

The one-year contract incorporates the terms of the existing contract and provides pay increases of approximately 3 percent depending on job level.

About Michigan Medicine: At Michigan Medicine, we advance health to serve Michigan and the world. We pursue excellence every day in our three hospitals, 125 clinics and home care operations that handle more than 2.3 million outpatient visits a year, as well as educate the next generation of physicians, health professionals and scientists in our U-M Medical School.

Michigan Medicine includes the top ranked U-M Medical School and the University of Michigan Health System, which includes the C.S. Mott Children’s Hospital, Von Voigtlander Women’s Hospital, University Hospital, the Frankel Cardiovascular Center and the Rogel Cancer Center. Michigan Medicine’s adult hospitals were ranked no. 11 in the nation by U.S. News and World Report in 2020-21 and C.S. Mott Children’s Hospital was the only children’s hospital in Michigan nationally ranked in all 10 pediatric specialties analyzed by U.S. News and World Report for 2020-21. The U-M Medical School is one of the nation's biomedical research powerhouses, with total research funding of more than $500 million.

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