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Local Urgent-Care Workers Ratify a New Contract, Avoid a Strike. Here are the Details
MultiCare Indigo Urgent Care providers represented by the Union of American Physicians and Dentists voted to approve a new contract. Represented workers in September were considering a potential multi-week work stoppage after nearly a year of negotiations with the...
MultiCare Indigo Urgent Care Providers Agree to Deal, Averting Possible Strike
A week after authorizing a potential strike, the MultiCare Health System reached an agreement with the Union of American Physicians and Dentists (UAPD) on Wednesday. MultiCare Health System said in a statement that the union will reach out to its members...
AB 722 Safeguards Jobs of Unionized Physicians
Dr. Milton Lorig, a former physician, AHS member, and member of the Union of American Physicians and Dentists (UAPD), a co-sponsor of AB 722, said, “Privatization, or subcontracting of public services, can be a deceptive practice. In healthcare settings, over reliance...
La Familia Health Dismisses CEO After Union is Established
La Familia’s 19 physicians, dentists, nurse practitioners and midwives this week became a bargaining unit represented by the Union of American Physicians and Dentists, under the umbrella of the American Federation of State, County & Municipal Employees, more...
Show up Sunday, October 1, 2023, to Discuss Health Care Future
By Dr. Stuart Bussey, M.D., J.D. La Familia Medical Center is in trouble. The community health center which has provided primary medical care and served rich and poor from pregnancy through old age is in danger of failing. The many passionate doctors, nurse...
La Famila Health Medical Providers Form a Union
Photo by: Gabriela Campos/The New Mexican La Familia Health medical staff members have formed a union to counter what they describe as a “toxic environment” at an organization that takes care of patients regardless of income, insurance or legal status. Physicians,...