Over 1K Residents Unionize at Montefiore Medical Center
Over 1,200 resident physicians at Montefiore Medical Center in Bronx, New York, will now have union representation following a successful election through the National Labor Relations Board. 82% voted to join the Committee of Interns and Residents, a part of the Service Employees International Union and a fast-growing labor union representing doctors-in-training.
According to the release, the movement to organize residents at Montefiore began early in the pandemic when clinicians had to fill in gaps without additional support. Libby Wetterer, a third-year family medicine resident at the hospital, said “witnessing the way that healthcare works in the Bronx” drove residents to organize, especially after the pandemic disproportionately claimed the lives of non-White patients and highlighted issues like medical racism and disparate patient outcomes. “It just feels like a really powerful time for labor in healthcare,” she said. Read More
Over 1K residents unionize at Montefiore Medical Center (Mensik, Healthcare Dive, 3/2).
