More than 800 resident doctors in the Buffalo area will go on strike September 4 and 5, in an effort to improve pay and benefits.
Local resident doctors are voicing their grievances over low wages, with some making what amounts to around $15 an hour over an 80-hour week.
Dr. Armin Tadayyon (Tih-DIE-YONE) says that not only is pay lacking, insurance coverage has decreased to the point where receiving medical care is nearly impossible.
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Tadayyon (Tah-DIE-YONE), a resident anesthesiologist who’s part of the bargaining process, says every negotiation attempt has failed, and now, 93% of the union bargaining board has agreed to strike.
Dr. Stuart Bussey, national president for the Union of American Physicians and Dentists, or UAPD, says the strike will be just the fourth in the national union’s history.