United University Professions Fredonia Chapter

Congratulations to the 2021-2023 elected Officers and Delegates!

The results of the chapter election have been posted at:  https://uupinfo.org/elections/results/chapter/Fredonia/21/Results.pdf

CANDIDATE STATEMENTS:

Christopher Taverna – Chapter President and Delegate

Ziya Arnavut – Chapter President and Delegate

Cynthia Smith – Vice President for Academics and Delegate

Melissa Hooper – Vice President for Professionals

Michael Clarkson-Hendrix – Secretary

Lei Huang – Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Officer

Reneta Barneva – Grievance Chair for Academics

Iclal Vanwesenbeeck – Grievance Chair for Academics

Gregory Cole – Officer for Contingents

Anne Fearman – Officer for Contingents

Joy Bilharz – Officer for Retirees

Sign up for your UUP New Employee Orientation “NEOs at Noon” Webinars available every Wednesday at 12 pm.

Learn about your UUP benefits, sign up for dental and vision coverage, and hear more about the benefits of being a UUP member.

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Student Loan Stress?

Join us for the UUP Student Debt Clinic, a workshop exclusively for UUP members. This workshop will help you understand the Public Service Loan Forgiveness Program and Income-Driven Repayment Plans.

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Check Pay Stub To Make Sure –

To be a member of the union, your paycheck must say “UUP Member” under “Deductions.”

Wear red every Friday, for labor solidarity!

If you share pictures of yourself in red on social media please tag UUPFredonia
and use the hashtags #RedForEd and #UnionStrong

Here are our chapter social media pages:
https://www.instagram.com/uupfredonia/
https://twitter.com/uupfredonia/
https://www.facebook.com/UUPFredonia/
https://www.linkedin.com/company/uupfredonia/

The current working contract between UUP and the state of New York runs from 2016-2022. Pertinent information regarding the contract itself, bargaining process, and any other related details are available from this link,  https://uupinfo.org/contract/.

The 2016-2022 NYS/UUP contract includes an historic agreement to establish four annual salary pools, each 0.5% of the total basic annual salaries at each campus, for distribution to eligible UUP-represented employees to address salary compression and inversion. Read more.

The updated PEP Fast Facts flier is available here.

Hurry, the deadline to enroll is Nov. 15, 2019!

This past session, Governor Cuomo and the NY State Legislature amended NY State Election Law increasing the amount of time employees can take off from work to vote to three (3) hours of paid time off on the day of an election to vote. Read more.