UUP will be now offering a free benefit to all members: access to Psych Hub, a website for your mental health. There will also be a virtual seminar on May 30th at 12:00 P.M. for all members, which you can register for here, for how to use Psych Hub.
On May 24th, there will be a virtual panel free for all UUP members regarding mental health on campuses.
UUP President Fred Kowal has released his statement regarding New York State’s budget is out, which you can read in full here.
The next pre-retirement workshop will take place on May 8th (which will cover healthcare) from 7:00 to 8:00 P.M. and May 10th (which will cover dental and vision) from 7:00 to 8:00 P.M. If you are interested in signing up for either or both of these, please click here. If you have any questions, please email the retirement coordinator by next Friday, May 5th.
Please join the chapter for a contract update meeting and luncheon on Thursday April 27, starting at 12:30 P.M.. The UUP Chief Negotiator, Bret Benjamin, will provide a contract negotiation update at 12:30 in CANR Lecture Hall, room 101. This will be followed by a short solidarity walk from CANR to the Carriage House to enjoy a complimentary grilled lunch supplied by UUP at 1:00 PM. Please join us and bring a friend!
On Wednesday, April 14th at 11:45, there will be a virtual panel featuring UUP’s own Fred Kowal (amongst other guests including Senator Sheldon Whitehouse) , which you can register for here, about the Supreme Court and the recent extremist changes that have been made in the last year, their overruling of long-established precedents, and what can be done for advocating for preventing future extremist rulings.
The next online statewide pre-retirement workshop will take place on April 10th and April 12th from 12:00 P.M. to 1:00 P.M.. If you would like to register for it, please click here. As usual, the first workshop will cover healthcare, and the second part will cover vision and dental benefits, and you can always sign up for one or both.
Registration for the virtual yoga classes exclusively for UUP members is open now. The classes are $12 each, which you can sign up here. Please see the flyer below for more information.
On April 4th at 12:00 P.M., there will be an online academic panel for any UUP academic members who are interested in attending.
If you have some free time, consider writing a letter to urge the governor to fund SUNY campuses, which is approaching a deadline in a few weeks.
Click here to sign your name and write
