Mohamed El-Sabaawi, the court-appointed monitor at five Department of Mental Health Hospitals, has been working without a valid medical license since February 28, 2009. UAPD encourages doctors who have seen El-Sabaawi practice medicine since February to contact UAPD...
The July 31st bargaining session marked fourteen months of negotiations between UAPD and the State of California. UAPD has come to the bargaining table 25 times during that period, and still there is no contract. Not one state-employee union has been able to settle a...
On August 4th, the DPA gave UAPD notice of CDCR''s intention to lay off thirty-one dentists working in state prisons effective January 14, 2011, as part of a larger plan to reduce the dentist-to-patient ratio and shift work to newly hired dental hygienists. UAPD...
Late on Thursday, July 30th, UAPD was notified of the cancellation of the planned Senate Hearing in Yountville. It appears progress is being made on talks between the Committee and the Governor's office--UAPD will release details as they become available. Staff and...
All doctors in UAPD''s Bargaining Unit 16 have been excluded from the new round of furloughs announced by Governor Schwarzenegger on July 28th. The new plan does not impose furloughs on members of the six bargaining units that have ratified tentative agreements with...
UC Davis Doctor Speaks Out Against NuPhysicia Plan In an op-ed in the California Progress Report, Dr. Richard Pan, Associate Professor of Clinical Pediatrics at the University of California, Davis, explains why the proposed deal is bad for UC, prison inmates, and...
The UAPD Bargaining Team reached a TA with the State of California on June 25th. Ballots and a detailed summary of the agreement were paper mailed to all UAPD members in Bargaining Unit 16 on July 1st. Ballots are due back at the UAPD Oakland office on July 22nd at 5...
The UAPD Bargaining Team met with representatives from the State of California for the second time on Wednesday, June 18, 2008. The following topics were among those discussed: On-Call -- The UAPD Bargaining Team invited three CDCR physicians to the table to describe...
UAPD was NOT among the four unions that reached an agreement with the State of California on June 15. UAPD is scheduled to meet with the DPA the week of June 21st.