The UAPD Retirees’ chapter held a meeting in San Diego on October 23rd. The retirees discussed the exaggerated and untruthful attacks on the California Public Employees Retirement System (CalPERS) being made by Meg Whitman and other Republican candidates for office...
A shocking 23 percent reduction to Medicare payments to doctors is scheduled to go into effect on the first of December, unless Congress intervenes. Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar reports in the Associated Press: “The cuts have nothing to do with President Barack Obama’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...
In a case that has troubling implications for all public sector doctors, some of the Los Angeles County supervisors asked for and were granted access to medical peer review documents from Olive View county hospital, which is part of the UCLA Medical Center. The Los...
On Wednesday November 10th, UAPD met once again with the Department of Personnel Administration (DPA) and the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) regarding the surplus notices issued to 93 CDCR dentists.At the previous meeting on September...
Los Angeles County Coalition of Unions (CCU) Newsletter October 2010