by Suzanne Wilson | May 28, 2009 | California State of California Doctors, Department of Veterans Affairs (DVA)
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...
by Suzanne Wilson | May 26, 2009 | California Counties, San Francisco (City and County)
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...
by Suzanne Wilson | May 15, 2009 | California Counties, San Francisco (City and County)
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...
by Suzanne Wilson | May 15, 2009 | California Counties, Los Angeles County Physicians, Los Angeles County Psychiatrists and Dentists
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. ...
by Suzanne Wilson | May 8, 2009 | California Counties, Los Angeles County Physicians
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 …