Becker's Healthcare December 31, 2024
Union activity among physicians has skyrocketed in the last two years, according to a recent JAMA study.
While fewer than 10% of physicians in the U.S. are unionized, the number of official union drives among private sector physicians each year went from between zero and six between 2000 and 2022 to 21 drives in 2023 and 12 in the first five months of 2024, according to the study.
The union drives from 2023 and 2024 alone will represent 3,523 new physicians, almost the same number represented by unions over the previous 22 years.
Approximately 8% of all physicians in the U.S. are represented by unions, including some in the public sector. According to the National Labor Relations Board,...
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