When physician practice needs are met, patient experience and outcomes improve.

However, as medicine is becoming more corporatized, physicians are increasingly losing agency in our practice. Aggravated by profit-driven decisions rooted in board rooms, not exam rooms, doctors–from housestaff to attendings–are joining together in unions to improve working conditions and raise patient care standards.

SEIU Doctors United is a doctor-led movement to organize in greater numbers and transform the profession by building lasting physician power through a united union voice.

First formed in the early 1960s, Doctors Council, SEIU unites thousands of post-residency doctors and attendings at leading academic medical centers and health systems across New York City, in Chicago and in Minnesota amongst others. More than 37,000 housestaff are united in the Committee of Interns and Residents (SEIU-CIR), the largest and fastest-growing union of doctors.

Uniting in the nation’s largest union of healthcare workers, SEIU Healthcare, gives us a seat at the table to win historic improvements at our hospitals and clinics and a united voice to advocate for our patients, our practice, and our future.