A group of 40 hospital-based clinicians who work at Skagit Valley Hospital and Cascade Valley Hospital in Washington state have filed to unionize. The doctors, physician assistants, and nurse practitioners, who work under a contract with Sound Physicians, are seeking...
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Everett CHC Doctors, Feeling Like ‘Commodities,’ Speak up on Ailing System
Photo Credit: Olivia Vanni / The Herald Scott McAfee and Daniel Goodman are both doctors heading toward retirement. They want to go out with a bang. McAfee, 67, and Goodman, 71, are two of about three dozen union doctors, nurse practitioners and physician...
La Familia Health, Providers Reach Agreement Months After Vote to Unionize
Photo Credit: Jim Weber La Familia Health providers represented by the Union of American Physicians and Dentists have reached an agreement with the health care organization nearly nine months after providers voted in favor of unionizing, the two parties announced...
PeaceHealth Hospitalists Vote to Join Union
Hospitalists who work in Bellingham and Sedro-Woolley, Wash., have voted to join the Union of American Physicians and Dentists, according to a June 13 statement from the union, which was shared with Becker's. The vote affects approximately 30 physicians, physician...
PeaceHealth Hospitalists Vote to Unionize
Photo Credit: Finn Wendt About 30 hospitalists in Bellingham and Sedro-Woolley won the right to unionize as both PeaceHealth and Sound Physicians employees, after votes cast by the clinicians were counted on Tuesday, June 11. These clinicians specialize in...
Doctors and Dentists at L.A. County-Run Hospitals will get Bonuses Under Tentative Deal
Photo Credit: Francine Orr Unionized doctors and dentists who work at hospitals and other health facilities run by Los Angeles County will get cost-of-living increases and bonuses under new agreements with the county, reached after more than two years of bargaining...