September 2020 Newsletter
Part of the Solution | Negotiating Team Update | AFL-CIO Convention/Endorsements
Blue State, Ned’s State
Labor Helps Turn out the Vote to Elect Lamont Governor and Fight off ‘Right to Work’ Agenda
How did the labor-endorsed candidates fair?
2018_election_results_aft_ct.pdf
Winning Long-Overdue Respect for State Employees
Union members took the initiative "to remind people that the work we do is important," scoring an important victory for all state employees in the face of escalating special interest-funded attacks.
Defending OT in Pension Calculations
STATE CAPITOL, MARCH 15, 2018--UHP President Bill Garrity was back at the Legislative Office Building today to testify before the Labor and Public Employees Committee over SB 461, "An Act Omitting Certain Pay From a State Employee's Final Average Salary Calculation on or After July 1, 2021."
Read his testimony.
Free College for AFT Members
What does your union do for you?
See this update from AFT Secretary-Treasurer Loretta Johnson on this new benefit!
Congratulations to UHP's 2018 Nightingale Nurses
Five of the 10 UConn Health nurses to receive 2018 Nightingale Awards for Excellence in Nursing are UHP members!
Important: Recruitment/Retention Stipend for Critical Care Nurses
recruitment_and_retention_stipend_2.pdf
On Feb. 15, we finalized an MoA with UConn Health on a recruitment and retention stipend for nurses in critically understaffed areas. This may seem counter to some principles of collective bargaining. Therefore, knowing how we got here is helpful to understanding it.
Update: The MoA was revised on March 6 to include nurses in the UConn Surgery Center and nurses from other units who float into the areas identified.