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LA County psychiatrists& dentists (325)

Your Contract

Also known as a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU), this sets your salary, benefits, and many working conditions.

Membership Application

Membership is what gives our union power. You must submit an application to be a member of UAPD.

Employee Benefits

Unionized workers in Los Angeles County work together to negotiate the best benefits package for all.  Download as PDF.

Voluntary Benefits

UAPD members have an opportunity to purchase long and short term disability coverage and other types of plans at an affordable rate. Sign up to speak to a benefits counselor.

Doctors United For Our Patients

More information on bargaining with Los Angeles County.

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Los Angeles County Physicians (BU 324) Summary of Tenative Agreement

The following agreement goes into affect once ratified by members and approved by the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors.  Ballots have been sent to UAPD members, and are due back by October 29, 2009.  The UAPD Bargaining Team unanimously recommends ratification...

Los Angeles BU 324 & 325 Settle Contracts

On September 25, 2009 the UAPD Bargaining Team from BU 324 reached a tentative agreement for a successor contract with the County of Los Angeles.  The bargaining teams started negotiations with one main goal in mind – to protect members’ take home paychecks during...

Los Angeles Bargaining Update September 2009

Negotiations began in August between UAPD’s two Los Angeles County Bargaining units and the County.  UAPD Bargaining Unit 324 represents County-employed Physicians, and Bargaining Unit 325 represents the Psychiatrists and Dentists.   While the two units negotiate...

Legislative Advocacy

Every year UAPD sponsors and endorses state legislature bills that are beneficial to working doctors and those they care for.

Legal Expertise

UAPD stewards and staff get advice and support from experienced labor attorneys.

Know Your Rights

Union members have the right to union representation at any meeting with management that they reasonably believe may lead to discipline. These are called Weingarten Rights.

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As the year progressed, our members demanded to have a stronger voice in health decisions affecting their patients, especially concerning public health decisions.

– UAPD President Stuart Bussey, MD, JD

With greater strength and diversity comes an opportunity and responsibility to comment upon health issues that affect our members, their patients, and the public in general.

– UAPD President Stuart A. Bussey, MD, JD

Traditional physician interactions are being altered in this 21st-century pandemic.

– UAPD President Stuart A. Bussey, MD, JD