GRAND BLANC TWP, MI - The strike at Henry Ford Genesys Hospital has stretched into a fourth week with little sign of resolution, as union leaders and hospital officials remain divided over staffing ratios, premium pay and contract terms.

Teamsters Local 332, which represents the roughly 650 to 700 nurses on strike, is set to return to the bargaining table on Friday, Sept. 26, with a federal mediator.

But union president Dan Glass said he is not optimistic.

“ I have no optimism that it will be anything more than Henry Ford doing the bare minimum ,” Glass told MLive-The Flint Journal on Tuesday, Sept. 23.

At the heart of the dispute is how nurse-to-patient ratios are enforced and how they affect nurses’ compensation.

In a statement on Tuesday to the Journal, Henry Ford Health sai

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