In preparation for our upcoming negotiations for a successor Memorandum of Understanding between the County and UAPD, we invite you to attend a strategy meeting to assure that UAPD members' voices are heard and respected during this process. UAPD Membership Meeting...
By Stuart A. Bussey, MD, JD, UAPD President Dr. Ronald Bortman, UAPD’s perennial warrior, passed away peacefully at his northern California home Easter Sunday. He once quoted me a passage from the Renaissance writer Dante Alighieri: “The hottest places in hell are...
On Tuesday, April 12, 2013, the UAPD Members in San Mateo ratified the negotiated agreement between the Union and the County. On May 7, 2013, the agreement shall go before the Board of Supervisors for approval and shall be implemented on May 12, 2013. The UAPD...
Today UAPD staff members in Oakland delivered a large stack of union authorization cards to the Public Employee Relations Board (PERB), the agency that is charged with administering the collective bargaining statutes that cover UC workers. We believe that there are...
The reduction in the number of California prison inmates, which was mandated by the federal courts in 2011, has meant layoffs in most classifications within the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR). Since 2011, UAPD has been doing everything...
By Stuart A. Bussey, M.D., J.D., UAPD President Fraud costs the US healthcare system about $65 billion last year from Medicare alone. The ACA provides the Center for Medicare Services (CMS) with funding to adopt new tools to identify fraud and abuse. Last year the...