On September 25, 2009 the UAPD Bargaining Team from BU 324 reached a tentative agreement for a successor contract with the County of Los Angeles. The bargaining teams started negotiations with one main goal in mind – to protect members’ take home paychecks during...
Los Angeles County Physicians
Los Angeles Bargaining Update September 2009
Negotiations began in August between UAPD’s two Los Angeles County Bargaining units and the County. UAPD Bargaining Unit 324 represents County-employed Physicians, and Bargaining Unit 325 represents the Psychiatrists and Dentists.  While the two units negotiate...
Los Angeles County Physicians Negotiations Have Begun (BU 324)
Negotiations between the Union of American Physicians and Dentists (UAPD) Bargaining Unit 324 and the County of Los Angeles have begun. The first bargaining session took place on Thursday, August 6, 2009. In the first meeting, the County gave a presentation on its...
Los Angeles County Dentist and Psychiatrist Negotiations Have Begun (BU 325)
Negotiations between the Union of American Physicians and Dentists (UAPD) Bargaining Unit 325 and the County of Los Angeles have begun. Bargaining Unit 325 represents Los Angeles County Dentists and Psychiatrists.  The first bargaining session took place on...
Los Angeles County Votes YES on Fair Share Fees
With all the ballots counted, Los Angeles physicians voted in favor of instituting Fair Share Fees in their bargaining unit. Now all physicians, regardless of their membership status, will share—fairly!—the costs of running a union from which all physicians benefit. ...
UAPD Resolves Payroll Errors Plaguing Los Angeles Doctors
As of 5-8-09, UAPD has written confirmation from Los Angeles County Payroll and Personnel Services that it will correct the paychecks of Los Angeles County/UCLA doctors who had not received the January 3% increase negotiated by UAPD last year. Those affected will see...
Los Angeles County Stipend Negotiations Reaching an End
You may have already heard the good news! Last week the County and UAPD signed off on an historic agreement on how the USC County Physicians’ stipends and benefits will be forthwith handled. Under the new agreement, all tenured physicians will stay on the County’s...
Schwarzenegger Vetoes UAPD-Sponsored Safety Retirement Bill
Earlier this year Assembly Member Mervyn Dymally (D-Los Angeles) introduced legislation, sponsored by UAPD, to reclassify physicians working in a Los Angeles County Jail or Los Angeles County Mental Health Facility, after a Board of Supervisors resolution, as "safety...
Fair Share Campaign Update
As of Monday, September 22, UAPD has kicked off our BU 324 fair share campaign. We are asking members who haven’t done so already to sign and return a card or petition to express their support for holding an election on the fair share issue – call the UAPD office at...
