UCSF residents, interns launch 10-day protest campaign at Parnassus
UCSF trainees are starting a 10-day protest drive that ends at Parnassus, where staffing strain, low pay and patient-care pressure are already front-line issues.
UCSF’s Parnassus campus will be the last stop in a 10-day protest campaign that starts at UC Davis Health in Sacramento and runs through Thursday, June 11, putting San Francisco’s flagship teaching hospital at the center of a widening contract fight.
Residents and fellows represented by the Committee of Interns and Residents, SEIU Healthcare are taking part in scheduled unity breaks as part of the UC-wide action. CIR says more than 6,400 residents and fellows across the University of California system are now united through the 1UC campaign, and the union is negotiating its first systemwide contract with the university.
The San Francisco stakes are immediate. UCSF is not just another employer, it is one of the region’s most important training hospitals, where residents and fellows help staff clinics, wards and emergency care while also building the physician pipeline that the city depends on. When those trainees step away, even briefly, the dispute becomes visible to patients, nurses, attending physicians and neighbors who rely on UCSF Parnassus and related facilities every day.
The bargaining fight is also about money in one of the country’s most expensive labor markets. UCSF says salary for the 2026-2027 academic year will be determined through negotiations with the union. For 2025-2026, resident stipends listed by UCSF’s Division of General Internal Medicine start at $92,284 for PGY1, rise to $94,777 for PGY2 and $97,829 for PGY3, and residents also receive an annual housing allowance. UCSF says residents and fellows, along with eligible dependents, have medical, dental, vision and prescription drug coverage.
The protest campaign lands in a hospital environment that has already been under stress. UCSF health workers earlier this year protested understaffing and patient-care conditions at Parnassus, and the fatal December stabbing in the UCSF Parnassus emergency department added to public unease about the campus. The new round of unity breaks makes that pressure harder to ignore, especially if the dispute continues to raise concerns about workload, morale and whether trainees can stay in the UC system long term.
With the final action scheduled for Parnassus, the fight is no longer confined to labor tables and campus mailers. It is now part of daily life inside San Francisco’s busiest academic medical center, where the outcome will shape staffing, training and the care patients see at the bedside.
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