A brief description of the insurance benefits available to separated OM&C employees.

Consumers Energy Workforce Reductions resulted in a total of 72 members being laid off to the street.

The parties are targeting completion of negotiations by April 1, as was done in 2005.

Negotiation activities continue for the OM&C Working Agreement, which expires June 1, 2010.

 Negotiation activities continue for the OM&C Working Agreement.

Negotiations for the OM&C Working Agreement are underway.

On December 10, 2009, Consumers Energy announced its intention to lay off 34 union members of the Joint Underground Construction Group.

At the September 12, 2009 meeting of the Michigan State Utility Workers Council, the delegate body approved an amendment to the MSUWC Constitution which restructures how Union dues are calculated.

Utility Workers (UWUA) Secretary-Treasurer Gary Ruffner and Bob Baugh, executive director of the AFL-CIO Industrial Union Council, write about a meeting with U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu. Ruffner, UWUA President Michael Langford, UWUA Regulatory Affairs Director Carl Wood and Baugh are attending climate change talks in Copenhagen, Denmark, where 40 U.S. union members are part of a 400-member global union movement delegation led by the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC).