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UAW, Blue Cross leaders reach tentative ‘verbal agreement’ that could end 77-day strike
November 29, 2023 // Phone calls between BCBSM CEO Daniel Loepp and UAW President Shawn Fain over the past several weeks produced a "verbal agreement" between the two leaders towards the establishment of a collective bargaining agreement, Blue Cross said late Tuesday. The tentative agreement includes "significant general wage increases," a $6,500 ratification bonus for Blue Cross Blue Shield employees and a $5,000 ratification bonus for employees of BCBSM's Blue Care Network HMO, according to the UAW." Over the years, we have lost so much work. They've taken our work and given it to outside contractors," Gates said in mid-September when the BCBSM employees went on strike. "At one point we were over 4,000, 5,000 people (in the union) across the state. Now we have 1,300 people. So we're tired of bleeding. We're tired of them taking our work.