March 30, 2023
Physician employees at Allina Mercy and Unity locations voted March 27-28 on whether to unionize with Doctors Council SEIU. At press time, the results of the election had not been called.
According to the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), there were 132 eligible voters, and 105 votes were cast, with 67 in support and 38 against unionizing. However, 30 ballots have been challenged making the outcome unclear.
The NLRB notes that among those excluded from voting in the union election are physicians who work less than 20% of their time at Mercy or Unity, confidential employees, managerial employees, and guards and supervisors as defined by the NLRB.
Should the involved physicians vote to unionize, it would represent the largest known Minnesota physician unionizing effort to date, and the first since a group of Duluth physicians joined the United Steelworkers in 2016.
MMA President Will Nicholson, MD and Board of Trustees Chair Edwin Bogonko, MD, recently penned an Insights commentary on the factors driving physicians to consider unions and other practice choices.
June 18, 2025
The MMA is mourning the assassination of House Speaker Emerita Melissa Hortman (DFL-Brooklyn Park) and her husband, as well as the shootings of Sen. John Hoffman (DFL-Champlin) and his wife this past weekend.
June 18, 2025
Physicians can now preview their 2023 Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) performance information as it will appear later this year on the compare tool on Medicare.gov and in the Provider Data Catalog (PDC).
June 18, 2025
The Center for Advancing Serious Illness Communication (CASIC) continues to offer physicians a comprehensive training series that will introduce them to serious illness communication and to the Serious Illness Conversation Guide (SICG).