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As a UUP member, your dues directly support benefits that help you live a healthier, safer, and more satisfying life through programs that focus on job protection, career advancement, financial services, health care coverage, retirement planning, and others.
We are a community of thousands of colleagues working on campus and across the state for the same goal: A voice and a seat at the table as decisions about your career and your future are made at all levels of the workplace.
We are stronger together with your voice as a dues-paying member, as an advocate for your future and your career, and as part of your union.
UUP Fighting for Professionals
A professional employee is someone in a non-academic state-funded position. Non-contingent professional staff are typically eligible for permanent appointment in their seventh year. Staff in temporary or continuing appointments that are not eligible for permanency are contingent employees.
How does UUP fight for Professional Staff?
- Job Security
- Term appointments
- Permanent appointment
- Prior Service Credit
- Expected duties outlined in performance program
- Professional development opportunities
- Scholarship programs for continuing education
- UUP Guide for Professionals
Contractual Protections (2016–2022)
- Benefits (available to those teaching 6-credit hours): Health insurance, retirement plans, vision, dental, location pay, life insurance, work-life services and more
- 2% yearly salary increases each year of the contract
- Coverage under NYS Paid Family Leave Law
- New minimum salary for part-time academics
- On-base funds to begin addressing salary compression/inequity
- Re-establishment of on-base discretionary salary increases
- Professional development and other grants to address professional needs of UUP members and SUNY
UUP negotiates on your behalf
Other employment terms, benefits and programs have been negotiated outside of the contract:
- Delta Dental, Davis Vision, Life Insurance, Scholarship Program (Benefits Trust Fund)
- Health Insurance & Retirement Plans
- Parking
- On-call/Recall
- UUP Tuition Free
- Dependent/Elder Care Advantage Account
- Health Care Spending Account
- NYS-Ride Program
- Pre-Tax Adoption Assistance Program
- Productivity Enhancement Program (PEP)
- Certification and Licensure Exam Fee Reimbursement
- Joint Labor-Management Programs (Including IDA)