In order to minimize the impact of the elimination of hospital call at the Santa Maria Women's Health Care Center, the County of Santa Barbara and UAPD reached a side-letter agreement in late August. As a result of the agreement, there will be no layoffs of UAPD...
After a patient tried to choke a worker Wednesday with the lanyard holding a new alarm, the facility will now allow employees to wear them on a belt-loop clip. The attack on a psychiatric technician demonstrated with eerie precision the risk that employees had warned...
"You don't wear a tie if you're working with patients on a psychiatric unit. Now everyone is going to have the equivalent of a tie," said Dr. Richard Frishman, a psychiatrist and member of the union-based Safety Now Coalition who, like many staff members, has been...
By Stuart A. Bussey, M.D., J.D., UAPD President With the majority of the Affordable Care Act blessed by the US Supreme Court, Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) are now rolling down the runway. Some have already launched. Thus far 150 ACO contracts have been...
All union members are invited to the UAPD Triennial Convention and 40th Anniversary Celebration in San Francisco on November 2-3, 2012. To attend, send back the registration form that has been mailed to your home or REGISTER ONLINE HERE. Exact event times are listed...
Each full time employee will be credited with eight (8) hours of Personal Leave Program time (PLP 2012) on the first day of each pay period beginning July 2012 and continuing for twelve (12) consecutive pay periods afterward. PLP 2012 must be used in the month in...