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Join your union
Your union at Cook County Health
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The HSA represents interns, residents, and fellows at Cook County Health. When you become a dues-paying member, you enhance our ability to negotiate, enforce contracts, support our members, and advocate for improved working conditions, better training, and superior patient care.
Eligibility: If you are an intern, resident, or fellow at Stroger Hospital, you can join the HSA. Membership offers benefits such as training on your rights and access to exclusive member savings.
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​How to Join: Fill out the form below, email us at admin@hsacc.org, or contact your representative.​
Monthly Meetings: All members are welcome to our monthly council meeting on the first Thursday of each month from 5:30 PM to 7:00 PM, held in person with a virtual option. Non-members may attend with council approval. For details, email admin@hsacc.org or reach out to your representative.
Why Join HSA?
Stronger Contract Enforcement
Your dues support the resources HSA needs to enforce the contract and protect members’ rights.
More Bargaining Power
Membership gives HSA the strength to fight for better pay, benefits, scheduling protections, leave, educational support, and safer working conditions.
Support When Issues Come Up
HSA helps members navigate workplace concerns, grievances, remediation, discipline, pay issues, reimbursement problems, scheduling concerns, and more.
Member Benefits
HSA members can access union benefits, discounts, and resources through HSA, NUHHCE, AFSCME, and Union Plus.
We Are Physicians and Trainees
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HSA members are both physicians and trainees. Our contract helps protect the conditions that make strong training possible — including fair schedules, educational support, due process, and a voice in decisions that affect patient care and residency education.
Through HSA, residents and fellows can organize around issues like remediation, advancement, supervision, educational time, reimbursements, patient care standards, and safe working conditions.
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While the ACGME standards set important minimum requirements, but a union contract gives housestaff a legally binding way to enforce workplace rights and negotiate protections that reflect the reality of training at Cook County.
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Training protections
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Advancement, supervision, remediation, and non-renewal should be fair and transparent.
Educational support
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Stipends, reimbursements, board prep, and required materials matter.
Due process
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Career-impacting decisions should not happen without a clear process.
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Patient care voice
Residents and fellows need a say in the systems where they provide care.
When housestaff organize together, we strengthen both our workplace and our training.​
Unions Make Work Better
Unions protect benefits
Union contracts help secure leave, health insurance, disability benefits, and paid holidays.
Union contracts help raise standards for everyone — and they are especially important for workers who are too often underpaid, undervalued, or excluded from workplace power.
Unions narrow pay gaps
Collective bargaining helps reduce racial and gender wage gaps.
Unions raise wages
Union workers earn more on average than nonunion workers.
Unions give workers a voice
A union gives workers a collective way to address safety, scheduling, discrimination, and workplace concerns.
Stronger together. Better for everyone.