Professor John Logan Quoted in KQED on UC Doctors’ Union Organizing Effort
Professor John Logan discusses a major union organizing effort involving approximately 10,000 attending physicians across University of California medical centers.
By LFCoB
John Logan, Program Director and Professor of Labor and Employment Studies at San Francisco State University, was quoted in a KQED news story about a major union organizing effort involving approximately 10,000 attending physicians across University of California medical centers.
The article discusses the growing interest in unionization among doctors as physicians raise concerns about heavy patient workloads, staffing shortages and having less control over workplace decisions. Attending physicians are seeking to organize with SEIU Doctors United to have a stronger voice in decisions affecting their work and patient care.
Logan explained that if the organizing campaign is successful, it could encourage doctors at other healthcare organizations to consider unionizing. He also noted that UC leaders may resist the effort because a union would require the university to collectively bargain over workplace issues that it can currently decide on its own.
