With all the ballots counted, Los Angeles physicians voted in favor of instituting Fair Share Fees in their bargaining unit. Now all physicians, regardless of their membership status, will share—fairly!—the costs of running a union from which all physicians benefit. ...
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UAPD Resolves Payroll Errors Plaguing Los Angeles Doctors
As of 5-8-09, UAPD has written confirmation from Los Angeles County Payroll and Personnel Services that it will correct the paychecks of Los Angeles County/UCLA doctors who had not received the January 3% increase negotiated by UAPD last year. Those affected will see...
Lawsuit: San Joaquin County Pension
UAPD continues to work on resolving a lawsuit challenging the County’s refusal to include its doctors in its normal retirement system. While a conceptual settlement was reached, UAPD attorneys are now negotiating details with Retirement Board counsel.
Los Angeles County Stipend Negotiations Reaching an End
You may have already heard the good news! Last week the County and UAPD signed off on an historic agreement on how the USC County Physicians’ stipends and benefits will be forthwith handled. Under the new agreement, all tenured physicians will stay on the County’s...
Schwarzenegger Vetoes UAPD-Sponsored Safety Retirement Bill
Earlier this year Assembly Member Mervyn Dymally (D-Los Angeles) introduced legislation, sponsored by UAPD, to reclassify physicians working in a Los Angeles County Jail or Los Angeles County Mental Health Facility, after a Board of Supervisors resolution, as "safety...
Fair Share Campaign Update
As of Monday, September 22, UAPD has kicked off our BU 324 fair share campaign. We are asking members who haven’t done so already to sign and return a card or petition to express their support for holding an election on the fair share issue – call the UAPD office at...
UAPD and LA County Officials Meet over Stipend Issue
On Monday, August 4th, the Union of American Physicians and Dentists (UAPD) and LA County officials met for the third time to negotiate over the salaries of LA County doctors who are paid in part through University stipends. Article 7, Section 2, Subsection “A”, of...
UCLA, USC, and LA County Still Negotiating Over Doctor Stipends
As many of you know, a significant number of LA County-employed doctors receive a paycheck from the county and a separate stipend payment from either UCLA or USC. Those stipends are funded by monies paid by the county to each university, and the universities control...
LA County Contract Goes Into Effect
The MOU covering Los Angeles County doctors, overwhelmingly ratified by LA County UAPD members on February 22nd, was finally approved by the LA County Board of Supervisors on May 27th. The wage increases set forth by the agreement are retroactive to January 1, 2008,...