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Strong Agreement Ratified in Santa Clara County
After sticking together through months of difficult bargaining, Santa Clara doctors have won an agreement that meets all of their key demands. The Agreement was ratified overwhelmingly by members this week; next it goes to the Santa Clara County Board of Supervisors...
Order Proposition Posters and Buttons Today
Vote by mail ballots go out in early October, so now is the time to ask your family, friends, co-workers and neighbors to vote Yes on Prop 30 and No on Prop 32. Prop 30 will increase taxes in order to protect vital public services. The additional revenue is needed...
Letter From UAPD President Bussey to Los Angeles Doctors
Dear Los Angles Physicians, Members of BU 324 overwhelming ratified the tentative agreement reached between the Union of American Physicians and Dentists (UAPD) and Los Angeles County in August. The new contract for LA County physicians will go into effect pending...
Worker Outcry Leads to Change in Napa Alarm Policy
After a patient tried to choke a worker Wednesday with the lanyard holding a new alarm, the facility will now allow employees to wear them on a belt-loop clip. The attack on a psychiatric technician demonstrated with eerie precision the risk that employees had warned...
Doctors Object to Faulty Alarm System
"You don't wear a tie if you're working with patients on a psychiatric unit. Now everyone is going to have the equivalent of a tie," said Dr. Richard Frishman, a psychiatrist and member of the union-based Safety Now Coalition who, like many staff members, has been...