Unions for Employed MD's

[drusso]

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I'm wondering if the accelerating trend toward employment-based models will facilitate or open up new opportunities for MD trade unions?

 

[drusso]

I'm wondering if the accelerating trend toward employment-based models will facilitate or open up new opportunities for MD trade unions?

Found it:

http://www.uapd.com/all-doctors-need-a-union/

 

[Gauss]

in Kaiser after 5 years you can apply for partnership and then "buy" in if they approve it. you get more options as a partner

 

[yankeeh8r]

in Kaiser after 5 years you can apply for partnership and then "buy" in if they approve it. you get more options as a partner

What does that mean, though?

 

[Disciple]

What does that mean, though?

Not a whole lot. I don't think you get to share in ancillaries or anything. It may be when you have access to the retirement package.

It's the medical foundation type of model. You don't buy into "Kaiser" per se, you buy into "The Permanente Medical Group".

 

[yankeeh8r]

Not a whole lot. I don't think you get to share in ancillaries or anything. It may be when you have access to the retirement package.

It's the medical foundation type of model. You don't buy into "Kaiser" per se, you buy into "The Permanente Medical Group".

Weird. So no bonus structure or anything, just you're eligible for the pension?

 

[bedrock]

Weird. So no bonus structure or anything, just you're eligible for the pension?

Yeah, but you get paid a lot less during your "working years", than you would in pp or a regular private hospital

 

[Mad Jack]

I'm wondering if the accelerating trend toward employment-based models will facilitate or open up new opportunities for MD trade unions?

I certainly hope that if unionization ever occurs, it is a physician-only union. Screw the SEIU and their ilk. I'd rather leave medicine altogether than work under their umbrella again, the greedy, self-interested [censored].