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Saturday, January 24, 2015

No Doctor

We posted earlier that there might be a one-day strike this coming week of docs at student health centers.*  Sometimes, labor disputes are settled before such strikes occur.  Apparently, this one has not been settled:

Doctors at all 10 University of California student health centers announced Friday that they will hold a one-day unfair labor practices strike on Tuesday. Organizers said the walkout will mark the first time in 25 years that fully licensed doctors have gone on strike against a U.S. employer. It will also be the first strike in the 43-year history of the Union of American Physicians and Dentists, according to the labor organization. "Obviously, we're disappointed that the union has chosen to go on strike," said Shelly Meron, a spokeswoman for the UC president's office. The UAPD said doctors at the student health clinics unionized in 2013 and have been in negotiations on their first contract for over a year, during which they've filed multiple unfair labor practice charges against the UC system for what they consider to be illegal behavior at the bargaining table...

Full story at http://www.kpbs.org/news/2015/jan/23/uc-doctors-plan-one-day-labor-strike/
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*http://uclafacultyassociation.blogspot.com/2015/01/docs-in-uc-student-health-centers.html

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