Here are three updates on unionization efforts by physicians and other healthcare workers since June 1, 2025:
1. Members of the National Union of Healthcare Workers began an open-ended strike June 18 at UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital Oakland (Calif.) and its satellite clinics.
2. On June 12, members of District 1199 Service Employees International Union New England began a 30-hour sit-in in front of Care New England headquarters in Providence, R.I., amid an ongoing labor strike at CNE’s Butler Hospital.
3. Members of SEIU Healthcare Minnesota & Iowa at the Mayo Clinic Hospital Methodist Campus in Rochester, Minn., approved a new three-year labor contract.
4. Primary care physicians at Boston-based Mass General Brigham’s Massachusetts General and Brigham and Women’s hospitals voted to unionize June 2.
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