State Controller John Chiang announced this week that he will be forced to issue registered warrants, also known as IOUs, beginning July 2 if immediate budget and cash solutions are not quickly adopted by the Governor and Legislature. However, the State...
UAPD Updates
Details of the Santa Cruz County Tentative Agreement
The UAPD Negotiating Committee has reached a second Tentative Agreement (TA) with the County of Santa Cruz over a successor collective bargaining agreement. This TA also settles the Unfair Labor Practice Charge filed by the Union against the County and contains...
PRESS RELEASE: UAPD Protests Physician Layoffs and Planned Unit Closure at Yountville Veterans’ Home
California Department of Veterans Affairs Slashes Medical Care for Napa Valley Vets UAPD Protests Physician Layoffs and Planned Unit Closure at Yountville Veterans’ Home Staff and residents of the Yountville Veterans’ Home, administered by the California Department of...
City and County of San Francisco Members Ratify Contract
Dear Colleague: Senior Representative Patricia Hernandez reports that San Francisco members have overwhelmingly ratified the Tentative Agreement. Voting on the Agreement closed on May 26, 2009. The new contract remains in effect until 2011. UAPD members have voted...
CCSF Bargaining Team Reaches Tentative Agreement
After 5 hours of talks on May 15th, the UAPD Negotiating Team (Senior Representative Patricia Hernandez, Deborah Brown, MD, Roger Wu, MD, Jon Smith, MD, and Derek Kerr, MD) reached a Tentative Agreement with the City. The Bargaining Team unanimously recommends...
Los Angeles County Votes YES on Fair Share Fees
With all the ballots counted, Los Angeles physicians voted in favor of instituting Fair Share Fees in their bargaining unit. Now all physicians, regardless of their membership status, will share—fairly!—the costs of running a union from which all physicians benefit. ...