"When you read the number, people might think, my God, a million dollars, how did that happen?" Read full article in the Silicon Valley / San Jose Business Journal
UAPD Updates
Santa Clara Doctors Vote to Authorize Strike
Santa Clara County doctors represented by the Union of American Physicians and Dentists (UAPD) have voted overwhelmingly in favor of a strike against Santa Clara County, and the UAPD Board of Directors has put its full support behind that strike. UAPD is also moving...
CalPERS is Stable and Affordable
AFSCME Secretary-Treasurer Lee Saunders reminded readers of the San Francisco Chronicle that "the sky is not falling on the California pension system" in an editorial published this week. Read the full text of Saunder's editorial, entitled California Pension System...
San Mateo County Announces Closure of Long Term Care Center
San Mateo County has informed UAPD that due to a $31 million dollar budget gap for the next fiscal year, they are not planning to renew their lease at Burlingame Long Term Care Center when it expires in June 2013. However, they do plan to open 32 additional nursing...
DSS Bonus Plan Suspension Becomes a Grievance
In the first round of a multi-step process, the Department of Social Services (DSS) has denied the grievance UAPD filed over their unilateral decision to terminate the Medical Consultant Bonus Program. The DSS denial can be read in full here. DSS claims that the...
UAPD and Other Unions Protest Planned DMH Cuts
On Wednesday the Department of Mental Health (DMH) informed workers that it intends to reduce the ratio of treatment staff to patients by almost a third within all five of its hospitals starting next month. The notice sent to UAPD states that DMH is “evolving into a...