UPDATE: On December 19, 2022, we received confirmation that the agreement is effective immediately. Back in April 2022, the UAPD began bargaining with Alameda County. The County initially proposed a two year extension in exchange for anemic across the board increases...
Oakland -- By a vote of 38 to 2, psychiatrists at John George Psychiatric Hospital demanded that the Chair of the Department of Psychiatry, Joe Walker, M.D., be removed from that position. The doctors are no longer willing to tolerate a Chair who fails to treat...
UAPD is in the process of resolving the SAN Psychiatrist wage adjustment dispute with Alameda Health System. UAPD contends that each and every Psychiatry SAN classification (Psychiatrist I; Psychiatrist II, non Board Certified; Psychiatrist II, Board Certified; and...
After a long period of negotation, UAPD has finally reached an agreement with Alameda County. Click here to see a summary of the agreement. The UAPD Team is asking members to vote YES to ratify this agreement on or before the deadline of February 12, 2016.  Ballots...
Alameda County currently has over a 50% vacancy rate among Physician llls and is spending $190 per hour on locum tenens to provide some coverage. Last fiscal year alone, the County spent $1.55 million dollars on locum coverage. To explain the vacancy rate, the UAPD...
UAPD and AHS reached an agreement on a successor MOU. The new MOU is a three-year agreement from June 27, 2014 through June 30, 2017. For the Dentists, there will be a 5% across the board increase dating back to the pay period closest to October 1, 2014, meaning that...
UAPD-represented doctors working for Alameda Health System (AHS) have asked whether they, along with the unrepresented doctors working at Highland Hospital, will be forced into the new foundation being created by AHS. The answer is no. UAPD took action last year to...
The Alameda County Board of Supervisors has appointed Dr. Milton Lorig, a UAPD Board Member and longtime employee of the Alameda Health System, to the Measure A Oversight Committee. Adopted by Alameda County voters in 2004, Measure A authorized the County of Alameda...
In recent years the best strategy for many county bargaining units has been to rollover the current contract rather than negotiate a new one, assuming the employer agrees to do so. While extending a contract generally means no new salary increases, it also means no...