After several months of work, the UAPD Negotiating Committee has reached an agreement with San Joaquin County. The team made several significan economic gains, particularly for those specialists who are difficult to recruit and retain. In addition to annual 2% cost...
UAPD Updates
Tacoma Doctors Join UAPD
Tacoma - The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) will soon certify a new union for doctors working at Auburn Medical Center (AMC) in Tacoma, Washington. At the vote count conducted on October 13 at the NLRB Region 19 offices in Seattle, a strong majority of...
Tacoma Paper Covers Union Drive
The News Tribune today printed an article entitled "Auburn Medical Center doctors working to unionize physicians." From that article: Neil Partain, a hospitalist at the Auburn hospital, agreed that a union seems potentially the most effective option for becoming...
Additional Raise for CSU Doctors
By now California State University doctors have all received the 3 percent cost of living increase resulting from the Side Letter Agreement with CSU. An additional 2 percent increase was also negotiated, which will go into effect on June 30, 2017. At that time, we...
San Joaquin Administrators Fall Short
When your UAPD Negotiating team met with administrators last Friday, we believed we were close to reaching a a deal. After all, your colleagues at the table had made significant concessions regarding market adjustments for ALL specialties by agreeing to focus...
UAPD Endorses Tax on Sugary Beverages
The CCSF doctors UAPD represents are dedicated to safety net medical care and public health. A survey of the Union membership in advance of the 2014 San Francisco “soda tax“ proposition yielded 96% support for that measure. With Berkeley’s approval of a...