1. Advanced practice providers and physician assistants at the University of Illinois Health system, part of the University of Illinois Chicago, are seeking to unionize. The clinicians filed representation cards with the Illinois Education Labor Relations Board seeking an election on whether to join Service Employees International Union Local 73.
2. Nearly 5,000 physicians, nurses and other healthcare professionals at nine Providence bargaining units, represented by two unions, have authorized strikes. Members of the Oregon Nurses Association and Pacific Northwest Hospital Medicine Association from 13 hospitals and clinics across Oregon voted over the past two months, according to a Dec. 4 news release shared with Becker’s. Union representatives and Providence have been in contract negotiations for more than a year, and many bargaining units remain without agreements, the release said.
3. A group of 160 physicians, psychologists and physician associates at Cambridge (Mass.) Health Alliance have filed paperwork with the state to form a union, citing concerns over burnout and unsustainable working conditions.
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