Upstate UUP

Save the Date! The Negotiations Townhall meeting for the Upstate Medical Chapter will be on 11/17/21 at 12 PM and 5 PM.  More information will follow as the date approaches.

In December, the team will launch a series of virtual Constituency Negotiations Town Halls for specific groups, such as hospital employees, professionals and contingents.

Five town halls have been slated; the series begins Dec. 2 with a town hall for professionals at SUNY’s health sciences centers in Brooklyn, Buffalo, Stony Brook and Syracuse.

The meeting schedule is below. Click the links below to register for the town halls.

• Dec. 2: HSC Professionals, noon to 1:30 p.m.
• Dec. 3: Professionals, noon to 1:30 p.m.
• Dec. 8: Contingents, noon to 1:30 p.m. and Dec. 9, 6:30 p.m. to 8 p.m.
• Dec. 9: HSC Academics, noon to 1:30 p.m.
• Dec. 10: Academics, noon to 1:30 p.m.  

On Friday, October 22^nd, UUP once again reached agreement with the State to suspend the January 1 40-day vacation accrual cap contained in Article 23.2(d) of the 2016-2022 State/UUP Agreement. The new agreement with GOER mirrors the agreement UUP reached last year and provides that employees who have accrued vacation credits in excess of 40 days and have been unable to use that excess vacation leave due the ongoing impact of COVID will be given an additional year to close of business December 31, 2022 to exhaust that leave. 

For more information, please visit: Deal reached with state on vacation accrual extension (uupinfo.org).

You can read the MOU by clicking HERE.

Sen. Jabari Brisport wants to hear from parents and child care providers about how the state can help solve New York’s child care crisis.

Brisport, working with other state legislators and child care advocates, launched a nine-week virtual Child Care Listening Tour Sept. 29. The tour ends Nov. 24.

UUP encourages members to register for and attend the remaining virtual seminars, which are set for Long Island on Oct. 27; Hudson Valley on Nov. 3; Central New York and the Southern Tier on Nov. 10; Western New York and the Finger Lakes on Nov. 17; and the Capital Region and Northern Tier on Nov. 24.

Visit the Child Care Listening Tour for more information. 

UUP has signed an agreement with New York State and SUNY for a pilot overtime pay pilot program. Effective beginning October 14, 2021, non-exempt UUP employees in eligible State titles will earn 2.5 times their regular pay for overtime hours worked over 40 hours per week thru January 30, 2022. Employees in the below titles that are non-exempt or classified as overtime-eligible authorized to receive the 2.5 overtime pay include:

Eligible UUP employees in the above titles at Upstate Medical University will be notified by Human Resources as soon as possible. Other OT eligible/non-exempt employees directly related to providing patient access or health care services authorized to receive this 2.5 OT Pay will be determined in consultation with Upstate Medical University leadership.

For more information, please visit UUP, SUNY, state agree on overtime pay for hospitals (uupinfo.org)

Details of the agreement are in the MOA, which can be downloaded by clicking HERE.