Category: human resources

2025 ushers new era in physician unions

While unionization among healthcare workers and professionals is a familiar phenomenon, resident physicians and fellows joining unions has only grown in recent years. Indeed, since the start of 2025 alone, at least five groups of resident physicians an…

California hospital nurses to hold strike

Members of the California Nurses Association in San Joaquin County’s health system are set to strike Jan. 17.

1st Delaware resident, fellow physicians unionize at ChristianaCare

Newark, Del.-based ChristianaCare resident and fellow physicians voted 111-52 to unionize, making them the first resident and fellow physician union in the state.

Resident physicians OK union in 2nd Rhode Island system

A second group of resident and fellow physicians in Rhode Island have voted to join the Committee of Interns and Residents, which is affiliated with the Service Employees International Union.

3rd Philadelphia physician group votes to unionize

In what is becoming a harbinger of growing labor unrest among physicians, a third group of Philadelphia physicians has voted to join a union. Resident physicians and fellows at Jefferson Health voted to join the Committee of Interns and Residents, an a…

Essentia Health workers' strike enters 2nd month

Duluth, Minn.-based Essentia Health and SEIU Healthcare Minnesota & Iowa will reconvene negotiations Jan. 22-23 as employees continue an open-ended strike that began Dec. 9.

UMH-Sparrow workers reach deal, cancel strike: 3 updates

Members of the Michigan Nurses Association have reached a tentative agreement with Lansing-based University of Michigan Health-Sparrow, canceling a five-day strike that had been set to begin Jan. 20.

Harvard study urges regulatory reform amid physician strikes: 4 notes

Harvard University researchers are calling for urgent regulatory reform to address the increasing number of physician strikes in the U.S.

Providence files complaint against striking hospitalists

Providence Medical Group is accusing the Pacific Northwest Hospital Medicine Association, affiliated with the Oregon Nurses Association, of failing to bargain in good faith.

NYC Health + Hospitals physicians reach tentative deal

NYC Health + Hospitals physicians have reached a tentative agreement after postponing their previously planned strike.