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Flex Spending Accounts

by | Feb 24, 2021 | Home

For those members who have Dependent Care Advantage Account UUP was able to negotiate a grace period of 2 ½ months. Members had pre-planned their expenses for 2020 but as with everything else the pandemic changed those plans and members...

UUP WORTHY WEDNESDAY

by | Feb 17, 2021 | Home

UUP WORTHY WEDNESDAY – WEEKLY ADVOCACY ACTIONS, a weekly update on opportunities to join together and fight for causes that benefit our members, families, and the communities where we work and live. UNITED WE WIN! All the efforts of so...

Help Pass President Biden’s Covid-19 Stimulus Package Now

by | Feb 16, 2021 | Home

Help UUP hit 10,000 contacts to Congress  Lawmakers pay attention to messages from constituents. UUP members have heard that advice time and again in the past nine months during tele-town hall meetings with federal and state lawmakers. So UUP’s goal...

Student Debt Clinic

by | Feb 16, 2021 | Home

Got student debt? Get help here!  UUP sponsors regular virtual clinics on student debt so that members can learn how to qualify for federal student loan forgiveness and better handle their repayment. These clinics offer information in a clear, concise...

UUP joins the ESCCC – get involved!

by | Jan 26, 2021 | Home

Colleagues, I’m excited to announce that UUP has joined the Empire State Campaign for Child Care. The ESCCC is a grassroots movement dedicated to universal and equitable access to quality, affordable childcare. As a partner in this campaign, we are...

UUP: Use SUNY students, staff, campuses to speed up vaccinations

by | Jan 5, 2021 | Home

UUP: Use SUNY students, staff, campuses to speed up vaccinations The State University of New York—its students, faculty and staff and facilities—should be immediately used to rapidly administer the millions of COVID-19 vaccine doses New Yorkers will need to be...

Telecommuting Agreement

by | Jan 4, 2021 | Home

Colleagues, As I indicated in my email of yesterday afternoon, we were expecting that the telecommuting agreement would be extended. We received word in the past hour that the Governor’s Office of Employee Relations (GOER) will be extending the agreement...

Vacation CAP Extension MOA

by | Dec 2, 2020 | Home

Dear Colleagues, I am pleased to announce that we have reached agreement with the Governor’s Office of Employee Relations to extend the January 1, 2020 vacation accrual cap. As we are all aware, Article 23.2(d) of the State/UUP Agreement provides...