On February 14th, the UAPD Bargaining Team signed a Tentative Agreement in Santa Cruz County. Some gains were made and concessions were held to a minimum, which includes protecting the existing retiree health benefit for all bargaining unit members and retirees. All...
"Certainly, we're not anticipating it'll end up looking like an across-the-board 15 percent cut," county spokeswoman Dinah Phillips said. "This is a starting point." Read full article in the Santa Cruz Sentinel.
"When you read the number, people might think, my God, a million dollars, how did that happen?" Read full article in the Silicon Valley / San Jose Business Journal
Santa Clara County doctors represented by the Union of American Physicians and Dentists (UAPD) have voted overwhelmingly in favor of a strike against Santa Clara County, and the UAPD Board of Directors has put its full support behind that strike. UAPD is also moving...
AFSCME Secretary-Treasurer Lee Saunders reminded readers of the San Francisco Chronicle that "the sky is not falling on the California pension system" in an editorial published this week. Read the full text of Saunder's editorial, entitled California Pension System...
San Mateo County has informed UAPD that due to a $31 million dollar budget gap for the next fiscal year, they are not planning to renew their lease at Burlingame Long Term Care Center when it expires in June 2013. However, they do plan to open 32 additional nursing...