Mass General Brigham primary care physicians eye unionizing

Becker's Healthcare November 18, 2024
Kelly Gooch

Primary care physicians at Massachusetts General and Brigham and Women’s hospitals, both part of Mass General Brigham, are taking steps toward a unionization election.

On Nov. 15, physicians filed a petition with the National Labor Relations Board, seeking an election to decide whether to join Doctors Council, SEIU Local 10MD.

At Massachusetts General and Brigham and Women’s, both based in Boston, physicians cite “burnout” and the “corporatization of medicine” as their reasoning behind the unionization efforts, according to The Boston Globe.

“MGB has relentlessly become more and more corporate in the way they manage their physicians,” Michael Barnett, MD, a primary care physician and associate professor of health policy and management at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health,...

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