San Francisco (City and County)

Bargaining Update for CCSF

The UAPD Bargaining Team began meeting with City and County of San Francisco (CCSF) management on March 14, 2012.  CCSF is proposing that doctors make significant concessions again this year,  including an extension of furloughs, an increase to health insurance...

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Bargaining Roundup: Counties, Clinics, CSU

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...

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CCSF Ratification Vote

On Tuesday, May 4, 2010, your UAPD Negotiating Committee reached a Tentative Agreement with the City and County of San Francisco regarding the City’s layoff and reorganization plan that would layoff most of our members and rehire them at a reduced work week. Although...

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CCSF Asks UAPD to Accept Furloughs Instead of Layoffs

San Francisco is pushing all unions to make concessions, and most are bringing the City’s latest plan to members for ratification. As a cost saving measure, in early March Mayor Gavin Newsom proposed laying off thousands of City and County of San Francisco (CCSF)...

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Q and A on CCSF Layoff and Furlough Plan

Question:  Why should doctors sacrifice more work hours which would de facto result in decreased billing and decreased productivity for the Department of Public Health? Answer: Sometimes the City seems to remember this and sometimes they don't. For example, despite...

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