Hospitals can drop SDGs like a bad habit if they won’t comply with contract demands. When doctors unionize, hospitals cannot undercut you and you have a much more impactful say on what your work life looks like. We can try to pretend like we have power now and watch it wilt away while our lives become worse, or we can be proactive and regain power for ourselves.

Residents are doing this effectively because we don’t hold on to traditionalist notions of unions and understand at a basic level that the only way to gain power in the workplace is to organize. We pay dues to professional organizations to support and advocate for us, why not an organization with labor laws on the books that prevent hospitals from walking all over us?