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Latest Workshop:

Having One-to-One Conversations

To sign up:

1. Go to the UUP web site (www.uupinfo.org) and click on LEAD Institute on the top tool bar

2. Click on: Having One-to-One Conversations

2. Fill out the required info and you will receive an email with the link to view your selected webinar.

In Addition all of the previously recorded webinars are available on-demand anytime by selecting a workshop link from the menu.

The contract for the NYS-Balance resource and referral service, jointly funded by the State and the unions, expired on December 31, 2015. If you need information or assistance related to resources and referrals, please contact the NYS Employee Assistance Program (EAP) at (800) 822-0244 (24/7) or nyseap@eap.ny.gov. You will be connected with an EAP coordinator who will be able to provide you with customized resources and referrals for a wide range of issues including work, family, daily life, finances, health and well-being, mental health, addiction, and stress. A list of EAP coordinators is available at http://www.worklife.ny.gov/eap/coordinatorlist.cfm?limit_to=all.

UUP Communications has put together a print ad that dovetails the TV ad currently airing on stations around the state.

The ad, titled “Ph.D.,” calls attention to the poverty-level salaries of SUNY adjunct faculty. The ad emphasizes SUNY’s overreliance on adjuncts, who struggle to earn a living wage.

The ad began airing Jan. 10 on cable television systems in the Capital Region, Buffalo, Long Island, Syracuse, and Ulster and Dutchess counties. The run ends Jan. 23. For more on the ad, check out the story on the UUP website at http://uupinfo.org/communications/uupdate/1516/160111.php

The print ad urges UUP members to stand with adjuncts in their fight for equitable treatment, and to share the print and TV ads on Facebook and Twitter.

Latest Workshop:

The Path to Continuing Appointment

To sign up:

1.  Go to the UUP web site and click on LEAD Institute on the top tool bar
2. Click on: The Path to Continuing Appointment
3. Fill out the required info and you will receive an email with the link to view your selected webinar.

In Addition all of the previously recorded webinars are available on-demand anytime by selecting a workshop link from the menu.

All,

Attached are 13 “testimonials” by UUP members on why the union is important to them. We hope you will consider publishing these on your chapter websites and in your newsletters (or make them available for chapter events, etc.) … even if these folks are not members of your chapter. Remember, their messages may resonate with fee payers. Use them one at a time or a couple at once; it’s up to you!

Also, we urge you to go to http://uupinfo.org/defendunion/union.php to get all kinds of “membership drive” materials for use in getting your colleagues to sign union cards. The link is available from the home page; look under Take Action for “Defending Our Union! – Friedrichs resources.” There are videos, fliers, fact sheets, palm cards, and social media and other resources to help convince bargaining unit members to join UUP. And remember to check back often; we are constantly adding to this site.

As always, feel free to contact UUP Communications with questions, ideas or comments. We look forward to hearing from you!

in solidarity,
karen mattison
uup associate director of communications
518.640.6626

Dear Colleagues:

On Sunday, UUP’s new television ad spotlighting our adjuncts began airing across the state.

Titled “Ph.D.,” the ad focuses on the qualifications of SUNY adjuncts and calls attention to the poverty-level salaries of SUNY adjunct faculty. The ad emphasizes SUNY’s overreliance on adjuncts, who struggle to earn a living wage.

We are very proud of the work that our adjuncts do and we wanted very much to share that publicly. But we also wanted to publicize the plight of adjuncts—these exploited workers are underpaid, overworked and without job security. SUNY adjuncts deserve far better than this and we, as a union, will continue to work for better salaries and working conditions for our members, using all possible avenues to obtain more leverage in the context of rising public awareness about the plight of adjuncts.

The ad is running on cable television systems in the Capital Region, Buffalo, Long Island, Syracuse and Ulster and Dutchess counties. It will air for two weeks, ending on Jan. 23.

Three SUNY adjuncts— Bentley Whitfield of Farmingdale, Rebekah Tolley of Albany and Oneonta, and Bill Lee of Cortland—appear in the 30-second TV spot; they talk about their academic qualifications and experiences on camera. An announcer follows with the union’s concerns.

“Nearly one-in-three highly qualified SUNY faculty are adjuncts. Many paid so little, they struggle to make ends meet. Yet students pay more than ever before. SUNY adjuncts deserve better.”

The campaign’s goal is to raise public awareness of the precarious situation adjuncts face and to generate support for pay increases and improved working conditions.

You can view the ad and a press release about the ad on UUP’s website, at http://uupinfo.org/communications/uupdate/1516/160111.php. You can also view it on YouTube, at  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QOeGk9SS7DQ.

In Solidarity,
Fred

https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/UUPSurvey2015

UUP’s story will soon have a national audience.

And a celebrity to go with it.

In America, a national production company that specializes in short-form productions for public and commercial television, worked with UUP over the last seven months to script and shoot a program that showcases the union’s history, achievements and vision for the future.

There are three versions of the production: a one-minute commercial ad, a five-minute educational documentary for public TV—hosted by Tony and Golden Globe-winning actor James Earl Jones—and a longer six-minute UUP profile that can be viewed on UUP’s website. Click on the photo above to watch the full-length profile.

The one-minute commercial will air nationally on Fox Business News on Nov. 19 or 20; the airdate and time are still tentative. That broadcast will reach more than 86 million homes nationwide.

Between Nov. 16 and Nov. 30, viewers across the country can see the one-minute spot during prime time (6 p.m.-11:45 p.m.) on CNN, Fox News, MSNBC, CNBC, Family Channel, TLC, Discovery Channel and other popular cable outlets.

The ad will air in more than 60 television markets, including Philadelphia, Dallas, Boston, San Francisco/Oakland, Houston, Detroit and Miami. The ad will also be broadcast in Atlanta, Honolulu, Las Vegas, Memphis, New Orleans, San Diego, St. Louis and even tiny Rapid City, S.D.; Albany is the only New York area where the ad will air.

Starting Nov. 23, the five-minute educational documentary will begin airing on on PBS stations across the country. The program will be broadcast on nearly 200 PBS stations; it will air throughout 2015 and 2016. The version with Jones can only be seen on PBS stations.

“UUP is the largest higher education union in America and it’s time for America to see and share in the incredible work that we do for our students, for SUNY, for the American labor movement and for our members,” said UUP President Fred Kowal, above, center.

The productions feature interviews with Kowal, statewide VP for Professionals Philippe Abraham, Cheryl Hamilton, director of the Education Opportunity Program at Stony Brook University; and Lynda Perdomo-Ayala, administrator in the department of pharmacological sciences in Stony Brook’s School of Medicine.

A film crew shot the day-long production at Stony Brook University and Stony Brook Health Science Center in June. Photos of several SUNY campuses also appear in the segments, including Oswego State, SUNY Downstate Medical Center, Upstate Medical University and SUNY Canton.

“This is incredibly exciting for UUP,” Kowal said. “The good work that we do for SUNY students, SUNY and our members will be shared with a national audience.”