Underpaid, Overworked Medical Residents Want A Union
Amid rising labor militancy over the past few years, one group of workers has gone under the radar: medical residents. Also known as resident physicians or housestaff, medical residents are doctors who have finished medical school and are working in hospitals as apprentices on the path to getting independently licensed. They are the patient-facing backbone of hospital operations, working extremely long hours under stressful conditions for mediocre pay.
Over the past few years, from California to New England, medical residents have been unionizing and striking by the thousands.