Mohamed El-Sabaawi, the court-appointed monitor at five Department of Mental Health Hospitals, has been working without a valid medical license since February 28, 2009. UAPD encourages doctors who have seen El-Sabaawi practice medicine since February to contact UAPD...
California State of California Doctors
State Bargaining Update for August 7, 2009
The July 31st bargaining session marked fourteen months of negotiations between UAPD and the State of California. UAPD has come to the bargaining table 25 times during that period, and still there is no contract. Not one state-employee union has been able to settle a...
CDCR Needs More, Not Fewer, Dentists
On August 4th, the DPA gave UAPD notice of CDCR''s intention to lay off thirty-one dentists working in state prisons effective January 14, 2011, as part of a larger plan to reduce the dentist-to-patient ratio and shift work to newly hired dental hygienists. UAPD...
Doctors Fight to Save Medical Care for Veterans
Late on Thursday, July 30th, UAPD was notified of the cancellation of the planned Senate Hearing in Yountville. It appears progress is being made on talks between the Committee and the Governor's office--UAPD will release details as they become available. Staff and...
UAPD Doctors Will Not Be Furloughed
All doctors in UAPD''s Bargaining Unit 16 have been excluded from the new round of furloughs announced by Governor Schwarzenegger on July 28th. The new plan does not impose furloughs on members of the six bargaining units that have ratified tentative agreements with...
UAPD Continues to Fight UC Takeover of Corrections Healthcare
UC Davis Doctor Speaks Out Against NuPhysicia Plan In an op-ed in the California Progress Report, Dr. Richard Pan, Associate Professor of Clinical Pediatrics at the University of California, Davis, explains why the proposed deal is bad for UC, prison inmates, and...