Day: October 9, 2020

Colleagues,

We continue to prepare for the November 3 election on all fronts. One important piece is sharing important information with our colleagues, friends and family via social media. Attached is a social media toolkit with sample graphics, posts and important links that can be used on personal and chapter social media pages. With important deadlines quicky approaching, it is important to share these graphics and posts widely on social media to help spread the word.

Election 2020- UUP Social Media Resources

Please reach out to Amy Sheldon, asheldon@uupmail.org, with any questions or concerns.

In solidarity,
Fred

Colleagues,

I hope that this email finds you well. I know that it is easy to feel disconnected and alone in our fights during this very difficult time. It is more important than ever that we find ways to stay connected. With that said, there is a great opportunity quickly approaching that will allow us to connect and share best practices on fighting for social justice issues, and against austerity budgets and the threats on collective bargaining. Let’s connect on the October 16 and 17 UUP Committee Training. Thank you for those who have already registered. I hope that you will be able to join us and invite others to join as well. It is more important than ever to find ways to build deeper connections and power amongst our members and our coalitions to help us succeed in these critical fights.

I wanted to share a few more details as the event gets closer. The tentative outline for the two days is as follows:

Day One—Friday, October 16 (1PM – 4PM): Committee training to enhance advocacy on issues of concerns for UUP statewide committees. Advancing the goals and agendas of our committees through coalition work.

 Friday will include the coalition partners panel, which will be led by chapter leaders and local coalition partners to share their experiences building strong community partnerships and discuss their issue-base campaigns, strategies and actions they have found to be most successful. If you would like to be considered for the issue-based coalition partner panel, please submit your names here no later than tomorrow, October 9 (this date has been extended). All panel decisions will be made by October 10. If you and your coalition partner are selected, you will be provided with additional information to share with your coalition partner on how to join as a panelist for this workshop.

Day Two—Saturday, October 17 (9AM to Noon): Election 2020 and activism

·         NYS Biden Campaign Director Presentation

·         AFT Election Update: Polling, State of the Race, What are we doing to make a difference and Virtual Phone Bank Training

·         Virtual phone banking or texting

 You can register for the two-day virtual event here. Space is limited and registration for this two-day event will close October 13 or when we reach capacity. Login information will be sent to registrants the week of the event.

Please feel free to share this invitation broadly. However, Employee Organizational Leave (EOL) is only available for statewide committee members. Due to the political nature of the day two activities planned, EOL is available for Friday only and again is available only for statewide committee members.

I look forward to connecting with all of you on October 16 and October 17.

In solidarity,
Fred

Dear Chapter Leadership and Members,

One of our most popular workshops has been the Pre-Retirement Workshop and with the use of online tools we are now capable of doing them statewide.  We are trying a new format of splitting the 1 ½ – 2 hour workshop into two 1 hour sessions, which will give many of our members the chance to attend at lunchtime.  Campus workshops will still be available if needed and chapter leadership can still set them up with Walter Apple.  We are encouraging all new and long time members to attend these workshops as the retirement benefits that we negotiated over the years are excellent and we need our members to realize that in order to maintain them we need a strong organized union. We plan on doing these workshops every month if the response is good and if you miss one or have questions that you didn’t ask, you will have another chance to do so.  Please distribute as widely as possible,  the link to sign up for the workshops is below and feel free to reach out if you have any questions.

In Solidarity,

Tom Hoey
UUP Statewide Membership Development Officer