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Members of the National Nurses Organizing Committee, an affiliate of National Nurses United, have called a second strike amid contract negotiations — a two-day walkout beginning Feb. 5 at University Medical Center in New Orleans.

Resident physicians, interns and fellows employed by Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston have voted to join the Committee of Interns and Residents, which is affiliated with the Service Employees International Union.

Technicians and technologists at MultiCare Yakima (Wash.) Memorial Hospital have voted 108-19 to join Teamsters Local 760, according to the National Labor Relations Board. Up to 170 employees were eligible to vote and six ballots were challenged.

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Michigan Medicine, the academic medical center of Ann Arbor-based University of Michigan, has reached labor contracts with three of its healthcare unions.

While unionization among healthcare workers and professionals is a familiar phenomenon, resident physicians and fellows joining unions has only grown in recent years. Indeed, since the start of 2025 alone, at least five groups of resident physicians and fellows have…

A second group of resident and fellow physicians in Rhode Island have voted to join the Committee of Interns and Residents, which is affiliated with the Service Employees International Union.

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