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Nurses and health care professionals have reached a tentative agreement with University of Michigan-Health-Sparrow, narrowly averting a strike next week. WEMU’s Caroline MacGregor reports.

Recent negotiations over health care coverage for workers represented by the Michigan Nurses Association and Michigan Medicine have failed. Now, the nurses’ union is prepared to go on strike. WEMU’s Ana Longoria reports.

The union voted overwhelmingly to authorize a strike as bargaining continues. WEMU's Taylor Bowie has more.

Earlier this week, the University of Michigan lecturers’ union announced it was circulating a strike pledge petition among its members. Today, lecturers and allies will be holding a rally and march seeking a new deal ahead of the end of the school year. We hear more from WEMU’s Kevin Meerschaert.

The United Auto Workers strike against the Detroit Three ended with the union claiming significant gains over past contracts. Among those that supported the union through the strike was the Ann Arbor-based Ecology Center. In addition to gains for workers, it says the contracts are important for our future environmental health. WEMU's David Fair took a look ahead and practical impacts of the deals with the Ecology Center’s Climate and Energy Program Director, Charles Griffith.

The auto workers strike played a part in Michigan’s jobless rate edging up to four-point-one percent in October. That’s according to the state’s monthly jobs report. Rick Pluta explains.

Governor Gretchen Whitmer says she has visited striking auto workers on picket lines and is urging labor and management to continue bargaining. Whitmer says she has remained in touch with UAW leaders and auto company executives.

A respected University of Michigan economic study says an expected auto worker strike would probably have a small, short-term effect on the state’s economy if it leads to a quick bargain. We have more from Rick Pluta.

The University of Michigan has responded to the latest counteroffer from the striking graduate workers.

Striking graduate workers voted to not pass back the University of Michigan’s latest offer. WEMU’s Victoria Smith reports.