California State of California Doctors

UAPD to State: No Deal

After two days of intense negotiations, the UAPD Bargaining Team must report that no deal has been reached with the State of California.  The offer put forward by the State did not adequately address the serious issues raised by our doctors, including high...

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Rights During an SEIU 1000 Strike

UAPD State-employed doctors have asked whether they have the right to strike alongside SEIU workers this coming Monday (aka sympathy strike).  The short answer is no, UAPD-represented doctors do not have the right to engage in a sympathy strike with another union...

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State Has Done Little To Fix Doc Shortage at Prisons

Press Release (Oakland) -- On Tuesday the State’s Office of the Inspector General issued a report that gave Salinas Valley State Prison (SVSP) a failing grade for the medical care it provides to inmates at the Soledad facility.  Fifteen years after a lawsuit in which...

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Additional Raise for CSU Doctors

By now California State University doctors have all received the 3 percent cost of living increase resulting from the Side Letter Agreement with CSU.  An additional 2 percent increase was also negotiated, which will go into effect on June 30, 2017. At that time, we...

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State Bargaining Update 8/19/16 – No Deal

Our goal as a team is to get the best possible contract for doctors, one which addresses the economic and non-economic issues that many of you have raised. We wanted to reach a tentative agreement with the State by the end of this week, so that the Legislature could...

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State Bargaining Update 8/8/16

As we go further along in the bargaining process, the State is bringing forward more information to address the workplace concerns we’ve raised at the table. For instance, we had further discussion of the lack of appropriate break areas, especially within CDCR. The...

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State Bargaining Update 8/2/16

Last week UAPD finished putting all of our economic proposals on the table. We are looking for a fair across-the-board wage increase for all classifications, plus additional money for those groups that face serious parity and recruitment and retention issues. While we...

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State Bargaining Update 7/18/16

Last week the UAPD Bargaining Team met with the State for three consecutive negotiation sessions and passed a number of the outstanding non-economic proposals.This will allow us to begin bargaining on economic matters, including salaries, this week. Here are some of...

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Bargaining Update 7/1/16

On Thursday, June 30, UAPD met with the State.  UAPD started the day with a proposal on Hours of Work, clarifying that working an average of 40 hours per week over a 12 month period means that some weeks should be shorter than 40 hours to offset those which are...

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