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Medical residents are filing for union representation in Northern California. Medical residents are going through training to become board-certified doctors, and during this training, residents have to work up to eighty hours a week, Residents also earn low wages during residency, and wages start at sixteen dollars an hour. Hundreds of residents who work at Kaiser Permanente hospitals in Northern California have filed a petition with the National Labor Relations Board for union representation. The residents had to file for union representation and an union election will occur because Kaiser Permanente did not voluntarily recognize the union. Residents in other areas in California have recently unionized, including at Stanford Health Care, USC’s Keck Medical School, and all University of California academic medical centers. In recent years, the number of medical residents in the United States who are presented by a union has significantly increased, largely due to the growing demand for better pay and improved working conditions during residency.