On Wednesday, September 29th, UAPD met with representatives from the Department of Personnel Administration (DPA) and the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) regarding the surplus notices issued to 93 CDCR dentists. At this first meeting,...
The UAPD Statewide Membership Meeting Weekend will take place October 22 – 23, 2010 in San Diego. Some highlights of the weekend include:Free CME: On Friday morning, the UAPD Continuing Education Program continues with a special four (4) credit CE/CME entitled...
Looking for financial support for college? Each year the AFSCME Family Scholarship Program provides ten $2,000 scholarships to high school seniors that will be renewed for $2,000 each year for a maximum of four years, provided the student remains enrolled in a...
UAPD-represented doctors in San Mateo are gearing up for what will likely be a challenging round of bargaining, with the next meetings taking place in late August. While San Mateo County has announced its intention to make cuts in all county bargaining units,...
Momentum doctors, the newest members of UAPD, will start bargaining their first union contract on August 24th. UAPD Bargaining Committee Members are Dr. Susan Harris, Dr. David Kilgore, and Dr. Bruce Eliashof, as well as UAPD Representative Jeff Duritz and Senior...
On Monday August 23, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger signed AB 1592 into law. The bill, which contained the UAPD Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) ratified by members last month, had been passed by both houses of the Legislature last week. The Governor's signature...
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...
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...
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...