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UUP Oneonta encompasses multiple generations of committed education activists, both professionals and academics, full and part-time, and retirees.  UUP Oneonta brings the power of solidarity through its membership in the Statewide UUP, the country’s largest higher education union.  UUP is a member of the 630,000 plus strong New York State United Teachers (NYSUT).  Statewide UUP, working with the chapters, negotiates our contract with the State of New York.  On campus, UUP Oneonta is responsible for contract implementation.  Through the contractually authorized Labor-Management meetings and the Grievance Procedures, UUP Oneonta provides representation for our members.  In addition to contact representation,

Oneonta activities include on-going dialogue with Management, administration and facilitation of several benefits and grants, SUNY advocacy, membership development, College and community service, and sponsorship of social events.  UUP Oneonta also works with Management to protect the health and safety of our members. 

Through our Chapter and Executive Board Meetings, the award winning Sentinel newsletter, surveys, panels, forums, and this website, UUP Oneonta communicate and provides important information and a social venue for our members to come together in solidarity.   Through coordinated Outreach and Advocacy with the community and elected officials,  UUP and UUP Oneonta continually articulates the need for strong and stable funding for SUNY.  It is your union, and the strength of UUP Oneonta depends upon your active participation.

 

Executive Board members of your local chapter of UUP marched on Albany, three days after the State Budget was released proposing cuts to SUNY, at a time when New York State needs to invest in our greatest asset. Several students were there to hear our message and were appreciative the union was watching out for their best interests.

 

 

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 Capitol Confidential»Sections»The State Worker A behind-the-scenes look at New York politics.

  • Nurses union is getting tougher
    In what they described as a move toward becoming more like a traditional trade union, members of the state Nurses Association have decided that supervisors in their respective hospitals or other health care facilities can no longer serve on the association’s board of directors. Basically it looks like they are drawing a line between supervisors [...]
  • Assembly pushing for state contracting study
    This has been a longstanding sore point with state employee unions  such as the Public Employees Federation.  Consequently, PEF has  called for such a look — and the Assembly has recently passed a bill to that end. Under their proposal, which would still need to get through the Senate and then be signed into law [...]
  • Disabled protection measure sails through Senate
    The state Senate just passed without debate a measure devised by Gov. Andrew Cuomo to create a new Justice Center as well tougher regulations and guidelines designed to protect vulnerable and disabled people from abuse and neglect by those who are supposed to be taking care of them. Actually, the bill went by so quickly [...]
  • PEF leadership challengers make the ballot
    The slate of insurgent union members competing for the leadership of the Public Employees Federation has gathered the requisite petition signatures needed to make the ballot. “Thanks to all who carried and signed petitions for NY Union Proud (NYUP),” says a letter on the group’s Facebook page. The letter says their effort is now focusing [...]
  • Crank up the bathroom shuttle bus, OCFS is dry
    This happened once before at the Harriman Office Campus, now it’s the Office of Children and Family Services in Rensselaer: A water main break has rendered the building’s bathrooms useless, not to mention the sinks, water fountains etc. When Harriman was dry, they tried shuttling workers to the Crossgates Mall, now it looks like they’ll [...]
  • Cuomo: Protections for the disabled is session priority
    Some of us may have thought we’d be gliding toward the end of this year’s legislative session, set for June 21, but Gov. Andrew Cuomo just disabused the legislature and press corps of that notion, saying his priority for the next seven weeks would be to enact a sweeping set of reforms to better protect [...]
  • State government’s brain drain, agency by agency
    The state workforce is smaller, grayer, and in the process of rebooting. I reported in Sunday’s paper that the bureaucratic core of the largest state agencies are, on average, 18.4 percent smaller than they were in 2009. The shrinkage was caused by a glut of retirements — spurred by a 2010 incentive — and a [...]
  • PEF: State spending on outside contractors is up
    The Public Employees Federation, the state’s second largest union of state employees, is out with a study showing that spending on outside contractors is up $285 million over the last fiscal year. At the same time, they note that spending on state employee salaries is down $395 million. Here is their release and report: Albany [...]
  • DOH checks lost, then found
    Thirteen Dept. of Health Employees in the agency’s Syracuse office received their paychecks a bit late after a delivery service misplaced the checks that were supposed to be issued earlier in the month but didn’t end up in employee’s hands until last Friday. “The carrier who was supposed to deliver them misplaced the checks,” said [...]
  • DEC Chair-gate ruffles state worker bottoms
    I’m not sure it actually rises to the level of ‘chair-gate’ but this is apparently ruffling some bottoms, er make that feathers, among the state Department of Environmental Conservation cubicle denizens. The Office of Parks Recreation and Historical Preservation is moving into the DEC building as part of Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s re-stacking initiative to consolidate [...]

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