University Health Professionals Local 3837

Stand Up for Safe Staffing

Have you spoken with your lawmakers yet?

Pandemic Pay Portal Now Open

Hourly members can able to look up state records that will determine their pandemic pay. (Note: The portal does not yet include information for our salaried members.)

AFT CT Convention'23

UHP sends five delegates to the '23 convention, which elected our Shawn Brown as AFT CT secretary/treasurer.

Updated Constitution Available

Four constitutional amendments were passed at the 2023 business convention.

In AFT President Randi Weingarten’s latest New York Times column, she describes what it is exactly that unions do. Though unions are the most popular they have been in decades, anti-union sentiment still thrives in red states and across the nation. “Several years ago, The Atlantic ran a story whose headline made even me, a labor leader, scratch my head: ‘Union Membership: Very Sexy,’” Weingarten writes in the column. “The gist was that higher wages, health benefits and job security—all associated with union membership—boost one’s chances of getting married. Belonging to a union doesn’t actually guarantee happily ever after, but it does help working people have a better life in the here and now.” Click through to read the full column.

Shaneé Reid Elected, Summer Lambert Re-elected

Congratulations to Shaneé Reid, elected as VP for Membership Activities, and to Summer Lambert, re-elected as recording secretary.

UHP joined a student-organized rally to call on Gov. Lamont to properly fund higher education, including UConn and UConn Health, Feb. 15 at the State Capitol.