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Resident physicians employed by Detroit Education & Research and working at Detroit Medical Center hospitals are seeking a unionization election.

Members of the Physicians' and Dentists' Organization of Contra Costa have reached a new contract with county management, avoiding a potential strike, according to a March 27 union news release shared with Becker's. 

Respiratory therapists and technologists at Ann Arbor-based Michigan Medicine's University Hospital and C.S. Mott Children's and Women's Hospital seek to organize with Service Employees International Union Michigan and have requested that the University of Michigan recognize the union.  

Members of the California Nurses Association have reached a tentative agreement with MarinHealth Medical Center in Greenbrae, Calif., averting a planned strike.

Hospitals and health systems have become increasingly reliant on outside labor for delivering clinical care. Staffing agencies and managed service providers, however, rarely offer healthcare leaders the transparency needed to make smart staffing decisions.

As hospitals and health systems face financial challenges and workforce shortages, they are seeing physicians seek representation at the bargaining table.

Members of the California Nurses Association are set to strike March 28 at MarinHealth Medical Center in Greenbrae, Calif. 

Workers across industries are securing large raises at the bargaining table, with about 100 labor deals ratified in 2022 including a double-digit pay increase in their first year, according to an analysis of Bloomberg Law labor data.

Members of UE Local 1004 held a strike March 20 at Henry Mayo Newhall Hospital in Valencia, Calif., according to The Santa Clarita Valley Signal.

Trinity Health Michigan, part of Livonia, Mich.-based Trinity Health, is standing by its decision to fire 11 workers, who were in the process of organizing with SEIU Healthcare Michigan, from outpatient labs in Ann Arbor and Canton.