AFLAC – supplemental insurance offered at discounted rates through payroll deduction for UUP members. Short term Disability, Accident, and Cancer insurance Pays cash directly to you Policy details at www.aflac.com/uup If you are interested in purchasing a policy, please email Sember at sember_miller@us.aflac.com by March 20th to set up an appointment. www.aflac.com/uup Office hours- Monday- […]

Hi, I just sent a comment to the Department of Labor to tell them to protect my retirement funds from financial advisers’ conflicts of interest. Wall Street insiders are pushing to delay or completely gut a proposed rule called the fiduciary rule, that would protect me from financial advisers’ conflicts of interest by requiring that […]

Hi folks! At our monthly Labor Committee meeting several weeks ago, I mentioned that the Tompkins Workers’ Center is the recipient of some grant $’s from the NYS Dept of Labor to conduct Occupational Safety and Health Trainings: ‘Your Right to Know’ BY THE END of March, as conducted by the TCWCs Carlos Gutierrez and […]

Hello United University Professional: First, I’d like to wish you a happy new year and to thank you so much for your thoughtfulness and continued support! As you know, March 2nd UUP, SUNY SA NYSUT, PSC and NYPIRG are rallying together to take on Albany, NY in the fight for affordable higher education! I’m reaching out […]

Today the ACLU took its first legal action against the Trump Administration. Why? Donald J. Trump is poised to become the 45th President of the United States without fully answering questions about his looming conflicts of interest. His ethical and financial conflicts threaten to undermine the public’s confidence in fair government – and even our […]

Time is running out to apply for the 2017 AFL-CIO Union Plus Scholarship, which offers awards of $500 to $4,000 to help union members and their children pay for college. Current and retired members, their spouses and dependent children are eligible to apply. The scholarships are open to both undergraduate and graduate students. The Union […]

Local Presidents, On Saturday, January 21, 2017, hundreds of thousands of people will descend upon Washington, D.C. to attend the Women’s March on Washington. The Women’s March on Washington began as an organically growing groundswell the day after the 2017 election when a grandmother in Hawaii proposed to forty of her friends to go march […]

Privatization. Vouchers. Charter schools. Intolerance. Bullying. One thing is certain: Words won’t be enough to stop the Trump-DeVos agenda. We need action. On January 19 — one day before Donald Trump’s inauguration — the Alliance to Reclaim Our Schools will be hosting a national Day of Action. It will be an opportunity for all of […]

From Fred Kowal and others you may have heard about the Professor Watchlist, a website that seeks to “expose and document college professors who discriminate against conservative students and advance leftist propaganda in the classroom.” This website poses a clear threat to academic freedom. Over the past century, such lists have been used to harass […]

Dear Colleagues, In the days since the election, UUP has recommitted to work that upholds the values we hold dear: access to affordable public higher education, affordable health care for all, and the protection of civil rights, women’s rights, social justice, tolerance and respect. We are committed to the fight against racism, hatred and hypocrisy. […]