The contract between the Union of American Physicians and Dentists (UAPD) and Santa Cruz County expires on November 11th. Bargaining for the next contract began on Friday. Dr. Sanford and Dr. Yazgan will serve on the UAPD bargaining team, alongside labor...
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 has submitted a request for bargaining in Santa Cruz County and has begun the process of selecting a negotiating team. This year's bargaining will likely be contentious, as the doctors plan to push the County to do more to resolve its critical doctor shortage....
On Friday, July 1st, Psychiatrists at Alameda Health Services overwhelmingly expressed their desire to remove Dr. Joe Walker as Chair of their Department. Over the past two months, Dr. Walker has misused his position to make a deal with Traditions Behavioral Health...
All University of California student health center doctors represented by UAPD received a 3% raise effective Friday, July 1st. This marks the third salary increase in the UAPD contract, totaling a minimum of 10%, and significantly more for doctors at five campuses...
UAPD met with AHS two days ago in a meet and confer over TBH's efforts to staff a "triage psychiatrist" position in PES. AHS is claiming that recruitment has been unsuccessful over the past three months and that not enough SAN psychiatrists are interested in taking...
Due to the strength and unity of UAPD NEVHC members, the midterm bargaining team won the establishment of a new salary scale for providers. The comprehensive grid incorporates substantial salary increases for all UAPD members at NEVHC, ranging from 9% to 23%...
In the 2015 round of contract negotiations, San Francisco Department of Public Health physicians identified additional time off as a top priority. The UAPD bargaining team eventually prevailed in changing the contract from CTO “may be granted” to CTO “shall be...
On July 1, San Francisco Dentists, Assistant Medical Examiners and Veterinarians received a 3.25% salary increase based on the Consumer Price Index for the Bay Area. Two more take-home pay changes affected all doctors in the unit. These changes are pursuant to...