Doctors Move Toward Unionization Amid Post-Pandemic Merger Wave

Doctors at private hospitals are turning to unions to address the loss of autonomy and deterioration of working conditions that they believe are the result of increasing health-care mergers and acquisitions in the wake of post-pandemic economic strains on the industry.

Hundreds of physicians at the Allina Health System in Minnesota petitioned to unionize last week in what the union says is the largest group of organized doctors in the country. The new campaign marks another step for organized labor with the nation’s doctors, and unions predict a bigger push could be on the horizon.

While a unionized physician workforce ...