Case study: unionization of a newly acquired satellite practice.
In March 1997, a 24-physician primary care medical group in upstate New York acquired an occupational medicine practice. Shortly after the merger, motivated primarily by job security concerns, the employees of the occupational medicine group voted to unionize for the purpose of collective bargaining. The author--the practice manager for the merged medical group--describes the events that ensued as practice management and union employees struggled toward an agreement.
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Department of Family Medicine, State University of New York at Syracuse, USA. DELINEC@upstate.edu
D003659:Decision Making, Organizational; D006123:Group Practice / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006273:Health Facility Merger; D007750:Labor Unions; D017008:Negotiating; D009518:New York; D019982:Organizational Case Studies; D011320:Primary Health Care / Q000458:organization & administration*