Becker's Healthcare June 27, 2024
Unionization continues to gain traction among physicians as they seek representation at the bargaining table.
Eight notes:
1. Nationally, the number of medical residents in unions has grown from 17,000 to more than 32,000 in about three years, per CalMatters.
2. In the last six months, residents at Kaiser Permanente hospitals in Northern California, University of Chicago Medical Center, and McGaw Medical Center of Northwestern University in Chicago voted to unionize.
3. Most recently, in a first in Maryland, residents and fellow physicians at the University of Maryland Medical Center in Baltimore voted to unionize.
4. It is not only physicians in training who are unionizing. In March, attending physicians at Salem (Mass.) Hospital, a facility owned by Somerville,...
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