At the Request of Dr. Mitch Katz, Director of the newly formed Los Angeles County Health Agency, UAPD has partnered with the Department of Health Services (DHS) to increase the recruitment of Physicians and Specialists who work for the County. The...
Los Angeles County Policy No. 311.4, as revised on July 1, 2016, states as its purpose: “To build, maintain, and support a Safe and Just Culture at the Department of Health Services...A Safe and Just Culture is one in which safety is an individual and...
The Los Angeles County Health Agency, in partnership with labor unions including UAPD, has launched a logo and motto contest as part of their Health Agency employee engagement campaign. The contest is open to all Los Angeles County Health Agency employees. ...
UAPD Bargaining Unit 324 negotiations are slowly moving forward. Healthcare Reform may be the biggest social and economic development in decades, but the County has had little to say about a comprehensive strategy for recruitment and retention of Bu 324 doctors. How...
Los Angeles County Physicians (324) are at the table this month. One of the ways that an employer gauges the strength of a union during bargaining is by its membership rate -- the percentage of people who have chosen to sign an application to become full members...
On August 11th the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors voted in favor of integrating the existing health care departments into a single agency. More than 25 UAPD members, doctors and pharmacists, testified in favor of integration before the vote took place. Many...
UAPD-represented doctors in the Los Angeles County Department of Health Services (DHS), Department of Mental Health (DMH), Department of Public Health (DPH), and the Sheriff's Department medical services are in support of a new plan to unite the departments into a...
With all the votes counted, 202 Los Angeles County pharmacists have voted in favor of joining UAPD, with just 17 voting for the Guild, and 1 voting for No Representation. That is more than 90% of the votes in favor of the new union. Based on these ERCOM, the labor...
Los Angeles County has officially published a proposal to integrate its three main health care agencies--the Department of Health Services (DHS), the Department of Mental Health (DMH) and the Department of Public Health (DPH). Supervisor Mark Ridley Thomas has also...