{"id":1322,"date":"2020-09-29T15:21:33","date_gmt":"2020-09-29T15:21:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uuphost.org\/purchase\/?p=1322"},"modified":"2020-09-29T15:21:33","modified_gmt":"2020-09-29T15:21:33","slug":"dues-cant-do-it-you-and-vote-cope-can","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uuphost.org\/purchase\/dues-cant-do-it-you-and-vote-cope-can\/","title":{"rendered":"Dues can&#8217;t do it, YOU and VOTE-COPE Can!!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">WHAT IS VOTE COPE?<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>Your statewide affiliate\u2014New York State United Teachers\u2014has a nonpartisan political fundraising arm called VOTE-COPE that coordinates the voluntary contributions of members and supports NYSUT-endorsed candidates and campaign committees that are pro-public education and pro-labor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>No union dollars are used to support candidates or campaign committees.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>NYSUT sends rebates to local unions based on a percentage (up to 40 percent) of the contributions VOTE-COPE receives from that local union&#8217;s members. Those rebates can be used in local activities such as school board races and for passage of school budgets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Last year, your colleagues contributed nearly $8 million to VOTE-COPE. Ask your chapter president how to participate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">WHY SHOULD I GIVE?<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>VOTE-COPE<\/strong>&nbsp;funds help protect our&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Taylor_Law\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">collective bargaining rights<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>VOTE-COPE<\/strong>&nbsp;funds give members and students valuable opportunities to deliver UUP&#8217;s message to legislators by attending advocacy days, in-district meetings\/events, and fundraisers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>VOTE-COPE<\/strong>&nbsp;supports candidates who fight to protect public<br>higher education\u2014our University, our students, our patients, our jobs, and our retirement benefits\u2014regardless of party affiliation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>VOTE-COPE<\/strong>&nbsp;funds give us a voice against the formidable forces pushing to privatize our work and our campus resources.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>VOTE-COPE<\/strong>\u00a0funds allow us to challenge misperceptions and promote solutions to the real problems our campuses face.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">HOW CAN I CONTRIBUTE?<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/uupinfo.org\/votecope\/images\/PledgeCardRedo.jpg\" width=\"100\"><br>VOTE-COPE pledge card&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.uupinfo.org\/votecope\/images\/vcPledgeCard.pdf\">CLICK HERE<\/a><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/uupinfo.org\/votecope\/images\/Materials4Retirees.jpg\" width=\"100\"><br>Retirees materials&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.uupinfo.org\/votecope\/images\/vcRetireePledgeCard15.pdf\">CLICK HERE<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WHAT IS VOTE COPE? Your statewide affiliate\u2014New York State United Teachers\u2014has a nonpartisan political fundraising arm called VOTE-COPE that coordinates the voluntary contributions of members and supports NYSUT-endorsed candidates and &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1322","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uuphost.org\/purchase\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1322","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uuphost.org\/purchase\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uuphost.org\/purchase\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uuphost.org\/purchase\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uuphost.org\/purchase\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1322"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/uuphost.org\/purchase\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1322\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1323,"href":"https:\/\/uuphost.org\/purchase\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1322\/revisions\/1323"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uuphost.org\/purchase\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uuphost.org\/purchase\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uuphost.org\/purchase\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}