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‘The last option’: Why doctor, resident unions continue to grow
MH Illustration/Adobe Stock A wave of labor organization continues among doctors, residents and fellows as more than 3,000 have joined unions so far this year, driven by worries about burnout, administrative burden and inadequate patient care. Doctors and support...
Workload Concerns Fuel Labor Fight at D.C.’s Largest Health Clinic
Mostafa Bassim/Anadolu/Getty Images The front-line doctors and nurse practitioners at the District’s largest community health center say widespread staff shortages and safety concerns at clinics across the city, including the jail, have forced dozens to quit, putting...
Washington State Hospitalists Set to Unionize — First physician union to earn joint-employer status
A group of hospitalists in Washington state is poised to become the first physician union to earn joint-employer status, sources told MedPage Today. Some 30 clinicians -- including 25 physicians and five nurse practitioners -- working at two PeaceHealth facilities...
This anesthesiologist is L.A. County’s highest paid employee. He works 94 hours a week
Photo Credit: Genaro Molina / Los Angeles Times Some county doctors say it’s a microcosm of larger staffing issues playing out across the county’s hospitals, which are a safety net for hundreds of thousands of poor and uninsured patients. The Union of American...
PeaceHealth Clinicians Push for Historic Union Vote
Photo credit: Finn Wendt/Cascadia Daily News An increasing number of clinicians across the nation are looking to unionize as they lose their autonomy to advocate for patients or themselves as for-profit groups, such as Sound Physicians, are “trying to squeeze money...
Unionized Health Care Workers at DC Homeless Shelters File Unfair Labor Charge
Two months after collective bargaining began between Unity Health Care (UHC) and its unionized providers, the organization representing the providers’ union has filed an unfair labor charge against UHC for failing to bargain in good faith, retaliating and silencing...