UAPD has submitted a request for bargaining in Santa Cruz County and has begun the process of selecting a negotiating team. This year's bargaining will likely be contentious, as the doctors plan to push the County to do more to resolve its critical doctor shortage....
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AHS Psychiatrists Support Ousting Dr. Walker!
On Friday, July 1st, Psychiatrists at Alameda Health Services overwhelmingly expressed their desire to remove Dr. Joe Walker as Chair of their Department. Over the past two months, Dr. Walker has misused his position to make a deal with Traditions Behavioral Health...
UAPD Pursues Salary Corrections at UC
All University of California student health center doctors represented by UAPD received a 3% raise effective Friday, July 1st. This marks the third salary increase in the UAPD contract, totaling a minimum of 10%, and significantly more for doctors at five campuses...
AHS Tries to Contract Out Doctor Positions
UAPD met with AHS two days ago in a meet and confer over TBH's efforts to staff a "triage psychiatrist" position in PES. AHS is claiming that recruitment has been unsuccessful over the past three months and that not enough SAN psychiatrists are interested in taking...
NEVHC Wins Salary Scale Worth Celebrating
Due to the strength and unity of UAPD NEVHC members, the midterm bargaining team won the establishment of a new salary scale for providers. The comprehensive grid incorporates substantial salary increases for all UAPD members at NEVHC, ranging from 9% to 23%...
UAPD Corrects Time Off Issue for San Francisco Physicians
In the 2015 round of contract negotiations, San Francisco Department of Public Health physicians identified additional time off as a top priority. The UAPD bargaining team eventually prevailed in changing the contract from CTO “may be granted” to CTO “shall be...