UAPD's legal counsel of Weinberg, Roger, and Rosenfeld sent out a firm "cease and desist" letter this week to CDCR Secretary Ralph Diaz and Federal Receiver Clark Kelso. In the letter, UAPD has demanded that CDCR immediately stop any unilateral action on their...
Recently, UAPD met in a Joint Labor-Management Committee to discuss the dissolution of the Matrix. What was the Matrix? In short, the Matrix was the chain-of-command which Bargaining Unit 16 doctors had to follow at Patton State Hospital. Doctors had been...
Bargaining Unit 16 employees at the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation are starting to see some relief from high call volumes and workloads that have been stretching the limits of what can be considered a reasonable expectation for after-hours...
SCC recently rolled out the Electronic Health Record System (EHRS). A grievance was filed regarding the inadequate training. The department has agreed to provide additional training to staff. The UAPD participated in the Meet and Confer process regarding the...
When the telemedicine and telepsychiatry programs were first launched by the department, physicians were told that they would not have to cover On-call assignments. The department then decided to start requiring them to cover on-call assignments. The Department...
UAPD has received questions from CDCR and CCHCS doctors regarding a recent memorandum that was distributed to employees. The memorandum was titled "Excluded and Exempt Salary Increases for Fiscal Year 17-18." The 2017 pay increases described in that...
As part of our ongoing collaboration, UAPD President Stuart Bussey and staff held a call with Coleman plaintiffs' attorneys last week. The attorneys were able to present a compelling case that CDCR is not providing adequate mental health care, based in part on...
Rosen, Bien, Galvan and Grunfeld, LLP is a legal firm that represents the plaintiffs in Coleman v Brown, which addresses mental health care in California prisons. The original judge in the case ordered that a Special Master be appointed to monitor compliance...
When the telepsychiatry program was first launched by the Department of Corrections, psychiatrists were told that they would not have to cover On-call assignments. The Department then decided to start requiring them to cover on-call assignments. The Department changed...