by Suzanne Wilson | Apr 15, 2013 | Featured
By Stuart A. Bussey, MD, JD, UAPD President Dr. Ronald Bortman, UAPD’s perennial warrior, passed away peacefully at his northern California home Easter Sunday. He once quoted me a passage from the Renaissance writer Dante Alighieri: “The hottest places in...
by Suzanne Wilson | Apr 12, 2013 | California Counties, Featured, San Mateo County
On Tuesday, April 12, 2013, the UAPD Members in San Mateo ratified the negotiated agreement between the Union and the County. On May 7, 2013, the agreement shall go before the Board of Supervisors for approval and shall be implemented …
by Suzanne Wilson | Apr 9, 2013 | University of California (UC)
Today UAPD staff members in Oakland delivered a large stack of union authorization cards to the Public Employee Relations Board (PERB), the agency that is charged with administering the collective bargaining statutes that cover UC workers. We believe that there...
by Suzanne Wilson | Apr 9, 2013 | California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR), California State of California Doctors, Featured
The reduction in the number of California prison inmates, which was mandated by the federal courts in 2011, has meant layoffs in most classifications within the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR). Since 2011, UAPD has been doing everything...
by Suzanne Wilson | Apr 1, 2013 | Private Practice Doctors
By Stuart A. Bussey, M.D., J.D., UAPD President Fraud costs the US healthcare system about $65 billion last year from Medicare alone. The ACA provides the Center for Medicare Services (CMS) with funding to adopt new tools to identify fraud...
