The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation has created a website to inform employees about layoff plans associated with AB 109 and the Governor's Five Percent Reduction Plan. Note that CDCR has not provided any information to UAPD about how its...
Oon May 16th, UAPD was dismayed to learn that San Francisco’s First District Court of Appeals reversed a lower court decision in favor of UAPD on the issue of furloughs. In a case first filed in 2009, UAPD argued that Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger had not received...
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UAPD-represented doctors and other union members contributed to a hard-hitting, two-part special report about Napa State Hospital violence, which is being broadcast nationally on National Public Radio (NPR). You can listen to Day 1 or Day 2 of the report by veteran...
In reponse to the violent attacks at Napa State Hospital and other Department of Mental Health facilities, UAPD-represented doctors have been speaking on the record with the press to bring public attention to the problem of patient and worker safety in the state's...
Furloughs of State Employees in Agencies Funded by Federal and Special Funds: UAPD attorneys recently finished up appellate briefs and await oral argument in the Court of Appeals regarding the Governors’ appeal of the lower court ruling in the union’s favor regarding...