Little by little I hear about physician unions popping up. Sounds like there are more residency unions than attending physician unions, but hearing more about attending docs as well. See this article: ‘We need more staff’: Legacy Health doctors vote ‘overwhelmingly’ to unionize
Just curious if anyone knows of unions in place with attending psychiatrists as members. And also just hoping to spur some discussion. From my position, employed by a health system for the last 10 years, and all the headache from admin (seemingly both from their complete ignorance to what psychiatry entails, but also I think they are just bottom line focused rent seekers), a union seems like a great idea and really the only way to have any leverage against the hospital negotiating basics like salary/rvu rate, call rate, midlevel supervision rates, vacation, etc.
I for one would love to have a union that could advocate for these basic aspects of employment. I think with internal medicine hospitalist unions forming, it would make sense for hospital based psychiatrists to be included as the work is relatively similar in regards to compensation and coverage.
Just curious if anyone knows of unions in place with attending psychiatrists as members. And also just hoping to spur some discussion. From my position, employed by a health system for the last 10 years, and all the headache from admin (seemingly both from their complete ignorance to what psychiatry entails, but also I think they are just bottom line focused rent seekers), a union seems like a great idea and really the only way to have any leverage against the hospital negotiating basics like salary/rvu rate, call rate, midlevel supervision rates, vacation, etc.
I for one would love to have a union that could advocate for these basic aspects of employment. I think with internal medicine hospitalist unions forming, it would make sense for hospital based psychiatrists to be included as the work is relatively similar in regards to compensation and coverage.