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In 1999 the National Labor Relations Board reversed existing Board policy and decided that the changing nature of post-medical school training merited the extension of the right to organize and bargain collectively to medical interns and residents. Now, four years and approximately a dozen successful organizing campaigns later, that ruling is facing its first challenge in a no-holds-barred attempt by the Montefiore Medical Center to prevent doctors-in-training from joining the Committee of Interns and Residents branch of the Service Employees International Union (CIR-SEIU). Centered on what interns and residents see as a serious deterioration in patient care and working conditions caused by the hospital president's cost-cutting measures, the campaign at Montefiore would result in the largest local doctors' union in the US if successful.