CANDIDATE STATEMENTS: Christopher Taverna – Chapter President and Delegate Ziya Arnavut – Chapter President and Delegate Cynthia Smith – Vice President for Academics and Delegate Melissa Hooper – Vice President for Professionals Michael Clarkson-Hendrix – Secretary Lei Huang – Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Officer Reneta Barneva – Grievance Chair for Academics Gregory Cole – Officer…

Wear red every Friday, for labor solidarity! If you share pictures of yourself in red on social media please tag UUPFredoniaand use the hashtags #RedForEd and #UnionStrong Here are our chapter social media pages:https://www.instagram.com/uupfredonia/https://twitter.com/uupfredonia/https://www.facebook.com/UUPFredonia/https://www.linkedin.com/company/uupfredonia/

The current working contract between UUP and the state of New York runs from 2016-2022. Pertinent information regarding the contract itself, bargaining process, and any other related details are available from this link,  https://uupinfo.org/contract/.

The 2016-2022 NYS/UUP contract includes an historic agreement to establish four annual salary pools, each 0.5% of the total basic annual salaries at each campus, for distribution to eligible UUP-represented employees to address salary compression and inversion. Read more.

This past session, Governor Cuomo and the NY State Legislature amended NY State Election Law increasing the amount of time employees can take off from work to vote to three (3) hours of paid time off on the day of an election to vote. Read more.

The attached four-page handout has been updated to include additional eligibility information under Article 39: Health Insurance (page 3). Click here to view.

The contract provisions that are taking effect during the month of July for eligible employees can be accessed here.

Update – The results of the Fredonia Chapter Election Run-Off are here. Fredonia Chapter Election results are here.

The new UUP Family Leave and Work-Life Services Guide is now available. UUP’s 2016-22 contract with NYS contains new family leave provisions. The Guide is available here.

Candidate Statements are Available Here: President and Delegate: Ziya Arnavut Darrin Rogers Christopher Taverna   Vice President for Academics and Delegate: Darrin Rogers Cynthia Smith   Vice President for Professionals and Delegate: Melissa (Sidor) Hooper   Grievance Chair Academic: Reneta Barneva   Grievance Chair Professional: Janet Mayer   Officer for Retirees: Joy Bilharz