2023 was a year of historic labor action for U.S. health care workers. A three-day strike involving more than 75,000 Kaiser Permanente employees became the largest-ever documented health care strike in the U.S. The workers said their wages did not adjust for mounting rates of inflation and staffing levels were inadequate.
Doctors and medical residents have not historically unionized in the U.S. But, in 2023, a collection of 550 health care workers employed by the Allina Health System and based in Minneapolis became one of the country’s largest private-sector physician unions. From January 2021 to early November 2023, workers in the health care and social assistance sector staged 109 strikes, with a growing number each year.
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