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Update your UUP membership

*** Remember to sign the form, or it won’t be valid ***

 

SIGN ONLINE

CLICK HERE to access and electronically submit your new membership form. Just fill in the blanks and click the Submit button at the bottom of the e-form.

Or print the Updated Membership Card

The new membership forms are available at your chapter UUP office or through your department representatives. You can also submit the new form electronically via UUP’s website, or print one and send it U.S. Mail to UUP.

UUP’s mailing address is:

United University Professions
P.O. Box 15143
Albany, NY, 12212-5143

You can call UUP toll-free at 800-342-4206 with questions.

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Latest Edition of The Advisor

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Read the April 2018 Advisor in a full color PDF.

In this edition:

  • Naloxone training at Upstate
  • DSRIP Brief
  • Contract updates
  • Retiree Membership application
  • Know your rights
  • much more…

Click on the link to read it in a new web page

or right-click to download it to your computer. 

 

 

Why is it important to sign the card?

Colin Massulik

 

 

 

Contributing commentary:
Colin Massulik
UUP Upstate Chapter Secretary (Elected)

September 15, 2015

As we enter our last year of the current contract, we are heading into another round of contract negotiations. This can be a long and drawn out process, sometimes taking several years. A team of very competent individuals has been assembled to take on the charge of writing our next contract.

UUP is the exclusive bargaining unit between the New York State Executive Branch (Governor’s Office) and those serving as New York State public employees with a 26P job title. 

Some of you who have never been union before may not be aware that this is precisely where your 1% of your salary goes. It goes to pay for the ability for the union to conduct daily business, listen to members’ concerns, enforce the agreement between NYS and UUP, and ultimately bring these concerns to the negotiations table at time of the contract renewal.

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