Frontline physicians at Kaiser Permanente in Santa Clara County plan to unionize, and are the last Northern California group within the giant private hospital system to make the move. More than 400 resident and fellow physicians across the Northern California Kaiser network want to join the Committee of Interns and Residents, a local branch of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU), after Kaiser declined to voluntarily recognize the union. The effort will affect two Kaiser facilities in San Jose and Santa Clara and 120 physicians in the county, who on April 2 filed a petition with the National Labor Relations Board…
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