Physician union petitions filed from 2023–2024 increase significantly over those filed during previous two decades

Medical Xpress December 23, 2024
Lori Solomon

The number of union petitions including physicians in the bargaining units filed and certified increased from 2023 to May 2024, according to a research letter published online Dec. 18 in the Journal of the American Medical Association.

Hayden Rooke-Ley, J.D., from the Brown University School of Public Health in Providence, Rhode Island, and colleagues examined trends in unionization among attending physicians (not trainees) and the characteristics and motivations for these unions. The analysis included National Labor Relations Board petitions to form unions from 2000 through May 2024.

The researchers found that 77 union petitions including physician members were filed (44 in 2000–2022 and 33 in 2023–2024), representing 7,064 individuals (3,541 in 2000–2022 and 3,523 in 2023–2024). When excluding petitions that...

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