Citing a “crisis” in healthcare, nearly 400 primary care physicians at Massachusetts General Hospital and Brigham and Women’s Hospital are taking steps to unionize, a move that medical professionals are calling “historic.”
The doctors on Friday filed a union election petition with the National Labor Relations Board, Attorney Marisa Powell, lead organizer for the Doctors Council, said in a statement on Monday. The council describes itself as the country’s oldest and largest union of attending physicians .
A vote to unionize is expected within two months, Powell said. If the vote passes, the physicians would be members of Doctors Council of the Service Employees International Union, Local 10MD…