Posts tagged Doctors Council SEIU
20 healthcare strikes in 2026
September 28, 2026 // Union activity in healthcare continues in 2026, with 20 reported strikes since the beginning of the year. Some of these actions involve healthcare workers and leaders across hospitals and clinics in multiple states.
150 Allina Health doctors start four-day strike after contract negotiations fail
September 15, 2026 // Allina is also in the midst of a hospice nurses strike that began Friday and will last through the week. Sutter Health, a California-based health nonprofit, says it is planning to acquire Allina Health in a deal that was announced in March.
Allina Doctors Council strike approved, ‘historic’ rally planned
November 5, 2025 // Healthcare professionals with Allina formed a union in October 2023, and since June 2025 have been attempting to negotiate new contracts. The union says a rally on Nov. 5 will culminate outside of Allina’s headquarters in Minneapolis. Allina Health has previously said it is "disappointed Doctors Council SEIU-represented Primary Care and Urgent Care providers are deciding to engage in a strike instead of meaningful negotiations at the bargaining table."
Allina Doctors Council announce 1-day strike happening Nov. 5
October 27, 2025 // Members of the Doctors Council at Allina Health announced the filing of a 10-day strike notice, which is the first time in Minnesota history physicians in the state have gone on strike.
Unionized doctors picket outside Allina clinics in first for Minnesota
June 4, 2025 // Braving rain and willdfire-induced bad air, the physicians at times seemed unfamiliar with picket line practices: A SEIU staff member shouted out instructions on picketing — where to start walking and where to pivot back — before they started. More than once the group seemed to forget to keep moving and came to a standstill, while two people led competing chants at different paces, muddying what’s typically a clear call-and-response. But nevertheless, they got their point across. Physicians, nurse practitioners and physician assistants are sure to become more practiced in blue collar labor demonstrations in the years to come as unionization increases. Just this year, resident physicians at Hennepin Healthcare and the University of Minnesota unionized with SEIU’s Committee of Interns and Residents, one of the fastest growing health care unions in the country.
The push to unionize doctors at Mass General Brigham
April 1, 2025 // “We are not claiming poverty or trying to bemoan our financial status as people who are suffering in the current economy,” he said. “We’re very aware of our position in kind of the socioeconomic hierarchy. That being said, it is really within everyone's interest to have a primary care workforce that has the most talented, engaged, excited, and productive doctors that we can.”
Heal thyself? Hundreds of NYC Health + Hospitals doctors could strike this month in union battle for higher wages
January 6, 2025 // Nearly 1,000 doctors at four NYC Health + Hospitals (NYC H+H) facilities are ready to go on strike this month if their contract demands are not met, the Doctors Council-Service Employees International Union (SEIU) announced on Thursday.
Allina doctors file to form what would be largest private-sector clinician union in the U.S.
August 14, 2023 // Doctors at one of Minnesota’s major health care providers have filed to unionize, a move that could create the largest group of private-sector clinicians in the entire country. Doctors Council SEIU Local 10MD, which would represent doctors in Allina Health’s system, formally filed an election petition with the National Labor Relations Board on Thursday. That means members will still have to actually hold an election to determine whether or not to unionize.
Why a group of Allina Health Mercy Hospital doctors wants to unionize
February 17, 2023 // Less than 10 percent of doctors in the United States are members of a union. But physicians at Allina Health Mercy Hospital in Coon Rapids want to join that group. They filed a petition for representation through Doctors Council SEIU, which already represents other health care workers at Allina Mercy, Unity and other hospitals throughout the state.