Providers have been in negotiation with LifeLong for more than a year over higher wages and improved conditions. Tim Jenkins is a senior representative with the Union of American Physicians and Dentists, the union that represents LifeLong providers. “The people we’re...
Over 130 physicians, nurses, dentists, therapists and other staffers at LifeLong Medical Care, a nonprofit provider of medical, dental, and social services for low income people, went on a one day strike on Tuesday. The strike called attention to demands for fair...
Medical and mental health workers gather outside the West Berkeley Health Center on Tuesday morning during a daylong strike. After negotiating their first contract for over a year, the unionized workers and LifeLong management have yet to reach a deal. Credit: Ximena...
Dr. Stuart Bussey, M.D., J.D., UAPD President; Doug Chiappetta, M.A., UAPD Executive, Director; and Patricia Hernandez, J.D., UAPD Chief Negotiator met with Assembly Speaker Designate, Robert Rivas. The UAPD discussed the statewide vacancy rates affecting BU16...
In the culmination of a months-long organizing effort, resident physicians at Loma Linda University Health voted to unionize on June 22. The historic vote is the latest chapter in the most prominent recent showdown between a Seventh-day Adventist health care...
MultiCare Shortchanges Patient Care By Holding $2 Billion in Publicly Traded Securities Federal Way, Wash., June 16, 2023 – Providers at one of the largest Urgent Care Clinics in Washington are a step closer to a picket and going on strike. In a unanimous vote,...