The UAPD Negotiating Committee has reached a second Tentative Agreement (TA) with the County of Santa Cruz over a successor collective bargaining agreement. This TA also settles the Unfair Labor Practice Charge filed by the Union against the County and contains...
California Department of Veterans Affairs Slashes Medical Care for Napa Valley Vets UAPD Protests Physician Layoffs and Planned Unit Closure at Yountville Veterans’ Home Staff and residents of the Yountville Veterans’ Home, administered by the California Department of...
Dear Colleague: Senior Representative Patricia Hernandez reports that San Francisco members have overwhelmingly ratified the Tentative Agreement. Voting on the Agreement closed on May 26, 2009. The new contract remains in effect until 2011. UAPD members have voted...
After 5 hours of talks on May 15th, the UAPD Negotiating Team (Senior Representative Patricia Hernandez, Deborah Brown, MD, Roger Wu, MD, Jon Smith, MD, and Derek Kerr, MD) reached a Tentative Agreement with the City. The Bargaining Team unanimously recommends...
With all the ballots counted, Los Angeles physicians voted in favor of instituting Fair Share Fees in their bargaining unit. Now all physicians, regardless of their membership status, will share—fairly!—the costs of running a union from which all physicians benefit. ...
As of 5-8-09, UAPD has written confirmation from Los Angeles County Payroll and Personnel Services that it will correct the paychecks of Los Angeles County/UCLA doctors who had not received the January 3% increase negotiated by UAPD last year. Those affected will see...
Bargaining was put on hold for the month of December, as the budget crisis has left the DPA without the authority to bargain productively over economic issues. Bargaining is set to resume at the end of January.
UAPD is part of a coalition of unions that is challenging the governor's furlough plan in court. The hearing date for the union-sponsored cases has been set for Jan. 29. Union attorneys will argue that the governor lacks the power to arbitrarily cut state worker...
Just like you, we keep waiting and waiting and waiting... Negotiations between the UAPD's Bargaining Unit 16 and the State are on hold through the month of December. In the last negotiations meeting, November 20, 2008, the State presented two takeaway proposals...