{"id":3101,"date":"2020-08-31T09:41:06","date_gmt":"2020-08-31T13:41:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uuphost.org\/buffalo\/?p=3101"},"modified":"2020-08-31T09:41:08","modified_gmt":"2020-08-31T13:41:08","slug":"welcome","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uuphost.org\/buffalo\/2020\/08\/31\/welcome\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcome"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Dear Colleagues,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Welcome to the start of a new academic year, one we have never experienced before! UUP&#8217;s tagline is &#8220;The Union That Makes SUNY Work&#8221;, and this holds true as challenges due to the COVID Crisis are being met by our members and indeed are allowing the University at Buffalo&nbsp;to continue to provide academic and professional services.&nbsp;However, as we begin this new academic year, the health and safety of our members remains&nbsp;the highest&nbsp;priority of the Buffalo Center Chapter and UUP Statewide.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>UB is encouraging the use of telecommuting option&nbsp;to continue to replace in-person meetings with phone or video conference. While we are hoping many of our&nbsp;members are able&nbsp;to&nbsp;take advantage of the telecommuting&nbsp;option, there are other members who&nbsp;are reporting to campus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u200bOver the summer, the Buffalo Center Chapter&nbsp;has been providing COVID related information as issues developed. You can refer to our webpage, as well as our Monday Morning Posts, to review these past&nbsp;issues.&nbsp;We will&nbsp;continue to monitor COVID related work condition issues as they are presented.&nbsp;\u200b<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As a reminder, if you have COVID related&nbsp;questions&nbsp;or&nbsp;concerns, please&nbsp;refer to our COVID Concerns Q&amp;AGuidelines, the list of FPMO&#8217;s, and the various&nbsp;university&nbsp;correspondence&nbsp;and links sent to all employees. You also have your Buffalo Center&nbsp;personnel&nbsp;resources available to you including your&nbsp;Department Reps., members of the Chapter&#8217;s Health and Safety Committee, Grievance Officers,&nbsp;as well as the Chapter officers.&nbsp;The&nbsp;Buffalo Center Chapter continues&nbsp;to operate virtually, as our physical office currently remains closed.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Looking ahead to the fall 2020 semester, your Buffalo Center has scheduled a&nbsp;full&nbsp;calendar&nbsp;of events including weekly meetings with Chapter Officers, monthly Board&nbsp;Meetings,&nbsp;Department Rep. meetings, Workshops and General Membership meetings.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I am pleased that the Chapter has seen an increase in individual&nbsp;membership participation, in a variety of ways, with your Buffalo Center Chapter of UUP. If you wish to become more involved in some way, please contact us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Together We Fight, Together We Win!&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In Solidarity,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ken Kern<br>Chapter President<br>UUP Buffalo Center<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Colleagues, Welcome to the start of a new academic year, one we have never experienced before! 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