UAPD Updates

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...

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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...

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UAPD Independent Physicians Association (IPA)

The UAPD IPA is a statewide, non-profit Independent Physicians Association formed in 1993. It gives its members, who are also members of UAPD, access to eleven PPO contracts with more than 3,500,000 non-exclusive patient lives, plus seven industrial medicine contracts...

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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...

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ACMC Doctors Opt for Contract Extension

On June 30, 2010, the UAPD Negotiating Committee for Alameda County Medical Center (ACMC) signed a tentative agreement to extend the current physician contract for one year.  The Agreement was ratified by ACMC union members on July 16.  The one year extension will...

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Tentative Agreement Reached

The UAPD Bargaining Team reached a TA with the State of California on June 25th. Ballots and a detailed summary of the agreement were paper mailed to all UAPD members in Bargaining Unit 16 on July 1st. Ballots are due back at the UAPD Oakland office on July 22nd at 5...

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Bargaining Update for June 18, 2008

The UAPD Bargaining Team met with representatives from the State of California for the second time on Wednesday, June 18, 2008. The following topics were among those discussed: On-Call -- The UAPD Bargaining Team invited three CDCR physicians to the table to describe...

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