Health Care
Local 214 represents a diverse group of health care professionals across the state who work in the following settings:
- Public Health Departments - Public Health Nurses (BSNs, RNs, LPNs), Nurse Practitioners, Environmental Health Coordinators; Environmental Health Sanitarians; Nutritionists; Registered Dieticians; Health Educators; Health Planners; Program Counselors; Animal Control Officers; Vision and Hearing Technicians; Personal Health Technicians; Dental Assistants; WIC & MIS Technicians; and support staff (Secretaries, Account Clerks, Office Specialists, etc.).
- Community Mental Health Boards and Authorities - Local 214 represents more CMH professional employees than any other labor union in Michigan. Represented members include Psychologists, Therapists, Social Workers, Case Managers, Occupational Therapists, Physical Therapists, Nurses, support staff (Secretaries, Accountants, Reimbursement classifications), Life Skills Advocates, and Direct Care. We also represent supervisory positions in separate bargaining units.
- University Health Clinics - Nurses
- County Jail Health Clinics - Nurses
- County Medical Care Facilities - Nurses (BSNs, RNs, LPNs); Certified Nurses' Aides (CENAs); Recreational Aides; Dietary; Laundry; Housekeeping; Maintenance and Custodians.
Health care is one of the largest and fastest growing industries in America today. Local 214 has over 40 years' experience representing health care professionals, and represents more community mental health professionals than any other labor union in Michigan. We are intimately familiar with the work performed in the above settings and the problems encountered by our members in this division.
Local 214 has been very active in monitoring and participating in legislative decisions affecting our health care members. We have been successful, through legislative lobbying, in reinstating lost revenue in programs in public health, inserting job security language in the Mental Health Code, and convincing legislators to include wage pass-through dollars into state budgets which have benefited both community mental health and county medical care workers.
Our business representatives have extensive backgrounds in health care and expertise in health care funding and are well equipped to represent the needs of health care professions.