by Laurel Dunn | Mar 25, 2019 | California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR), California State of California Doctors
Recently, UAPD met in a Joint Labor-Management Committee to discuss the dissolution of the Matrix. What was the Matrix? In short, the Matrix was the chain-of-command which Bargaining Unit 16 doctors had to follow at Patton State Hospital. Doctors had...
by Laurel Dunn | Feb 28, 2019 | Legislative Advocacy, News
On February 26th, California’s Assembly Public Safety Committee voted to pass Assembly Bill 45, authored by Assemblymember Mark Stone (D-Santa Cruz). AB 45, which UAPD (Local AFSCME 206) has co-sponsored, would eliminate medical and dental co-payments and charges for...
by Laurel Dunn | Feb 18, 2019 | Legacy, Washington MultiCare
UAPD’s Legacy Urgent Care Clinic Providers have been bargaining in good faith with Multicare for two years to establish a sane and safe clinic closing policy. Our providers often see patients nonstop for 14 to 15 hours, well beyond their...
by Laurel Dunn | Jan 9, 2019 | Alameda Health System
In July 2018, UAPD decisively won at arbitration against Alameda Health System (AHS). Two years prior to that time, AHS contracted out psychiatrists’ jobs in the psychiatric emergency services/triage services to Traditions Behavioral Health (TBH),...
by Laurel Dunn | Feb 25, 2019 | Legacy, News, Washington MultiCare
Facing an increasing media campaign and an imminent picketing demonstration by UAPD, Multicare Health Systems blinked. After 20 months at the bargaining table, one issue became the sticking point—the urgent care closing policy. Urgent Care doctors and providers wanted...
