Santa Cruz County

Your UAPD Representative

If you have any questions or concerns, please contact: Schuyler Hull, shull@uapd.com.

Your Contract

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

Membership Application

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

Employee Benefits

Additional information about your healthcare, retirement, and other benefits.

Personnel Department

Additional information and documents may be found on the Personnel Department webpage.

recent news

UAPD Goes to Factfinding in Santa Cruz County

When a session with a mediator failed to result in an acceptable agreement with Santa Cruz County in July, UAPD filed a request for fact finding with the Public Employment Relations Board (PERB).   Since then, we've created a fact finding panel consisting of one UAPD...

More Coverage of Santa Cruz Contract Fight

UAPD continues its media campaign to encourage Santa Cruz County to take their doctor shortage seriously.  The Santa Cruz Weekly clearly conveyed the crux of the issue in an article this week, which starts by saying, "Dr. Joann Moschella has a clear message for her...

Santa Cruz Doctors Petition Supervisors

Clinic physicians and psychiatrists working for the Santa Cruz County Health Services Agency have delivered a message to the County Supervisors that begins: "The physicians of Santa Cruz County share a commitment to providing the highest quality health care to all...

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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