Outreach committee works on strategies |
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| UUP activists, including Tom Hogle of Morrisville, center, shared strategies they've used on their campuses to advance the union's legislative goals. More than two dozen UUPers participated in the session which took place during the union's Outreach Committee retreat in mid-August. (MORE) |
Difficult decisions at endorsement conference |
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“We cannot support anyone who supports PHEEIA,” UUP President Phil Smith tells NYSUT’s Presidents’ Conference on Endorsements. PHEEIA is verbal shorthand for the so-called Public Higher Education Empowerment and Innovation Act. UUP vigorously campaigned against the proposal that failed to gain approval in the finalized state budget. Smith spoke at the Aug. 10 conference in Albany attended by hundreds of political activists from UUP and NYSUT, UUP’s statewide affiliate. Their task: to determine which candidates to support in this November’s election. (MORE) |
UUPers clean up, give back |
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| UUP members Dawn Leadley, left, Rich Veenstra, and Carol Braund pick up trash alongside Interstate 481 in Syracuse. They are among several Upstate Medical University chapter members who volunteered to clean up the roadway, as a way to give back to their communities. And they are not alone. (MORE) |
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