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Committee of Interns and Residents

American trade union

Summary

American trade union

Field	Value
name	The Committee of Interns and Residents/SEIU Healthcare
abbreviation	CIR/SEIU Healthcare
formation	1957
type	labor union, professional organization
headquarters	New York, NY
region_served	CA, FL, ID, IL, MA, NM, NY, NJ, PA, VT, WA, Washington, D.C.
membership	34,000+ interns, residents and fellows
leader_title	President
leader_name	Dr. Taylor Walker
affiliations	Service Employees International Union
website	http://www.cirseiu.org

The Committee of Interns and Residents (CIR) is the largest union of resident and fellow physicians (collectively referred to as "housestaff") in the United States, representing more than 34,000 interns, residents, and fellows in California, Florida, Idaho, Illinois, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, New Mexico, Pennsylvania, Vermont, Washington, and Washington, D.C. CIR contracts seek to improve housestaff salaries and working conditions as well as enhance the quality of patient care.

History

CIR was founded in 1957 by residents in New York's public hospital system.

In a landmark achievement in 1975, CIR won contractual limits for on-call schedules of one night in three. In the late 1980s and early 1990s, CIR successfully negotiated innovative maternity leave clauses, won provisions for pay for housestaff covering for absent colleagues, and in 1989 helped shape New York State's regulations that set maximum work hour limits for housestaff. Since then, CIR members have negotiated hours limitations and program security clauses in Miami, Los Angeles, and Boston.

In May 1997, CIR affiliated with the two-million member Service Employees International Union (SEIU), which represents over one million healthcare workers across the country.

In the 2021–2022 and 2022–2023 academic years, CIR's membership increased from 17,000 to over 30,000 represented physicians, over 20% of the total of nearly 150,000 residents and fellows in the U.S. In a historic union wave, residents and fellows won high-profile union elections at academic teaching institutions such as Mass General Brigham, University of Pennsylvania, Stanford Health Care, and George Washington University.

References

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Sainato, Michael. (2023-04-27). "'More than half of my paycheck goes to rent': young US doctors push to unionize". The Guardian.
Yu, Alan. (2023-04-12). "80-hour weeks and roaches near your cot? More medical residents unionize". NPR.
Mosbergen, Dominique. (2023-01-16). "Medical Residents Unionize Over Pay, Working Conditions". Wall Street Journal.
Press, Eyal. (2023-06-15). "The Moral Crisis of America's Doctors". The New York Times.
Bustillos, Esteban. (2023-06-08). "Mass General Brigham medical residents, fellows vote to unionize".
"In unionization push, Penn Medicine residents are demanding better working conditions".
"Stanford Health Care Residents and Fellows Vote 'Yes' to Union".
(2023-04-27). "George Washington University Medical Residents Vote To Unionize".

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