{"id":1726,"date":"2026-02-18T18:36:40","date_gmt":"2026-02-18T18:36:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uuphost.org\/binghamton\/?p=1726"},"modified":"2026-02-18T18:39:00","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T18:39:00","slug":"presidents-report-1-14-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uuphost.org\/binghamton\/?p=1726","title":{"rendered":"President\u2019s Report &#8211; 1\/14\/2026"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Brendan McGovern, President, UUP Binghamton Chapter<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Thank You for Your Support During My Family Leave<\/strong><br>Last semester, I stepped away from my chapter duties for an extended family leave to care for two close relatives, one in home hospice and one recovering from major surgery. I want to express my deepest gratitude to all of you who stepped up during this time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I especially want to thank Vice President for Academics Rosemary Collier, who served as Acting President with great care and steadiness, and our entire Executive Board for continuing the work of our chapter without missing a beat. Special thanks as well to our Labor Relations Specialist Chris Sielaff for providing his usual expert guidance and support to our officers and members while I was away.<br>It is good to be back. I am grateful to rejoin you all in the fight for our members.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.uuphost.org\/binghamton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Presidents-Report-1-14-2026.pdf\"><strong>Read more..<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brendan McGovern, President, UUP Binghamton Chapter Thank You for Your Support During My Family LeaveLast semester, I stepped away from my chapter duties for an extended family leave to care for two close relatives, one in home hospice and one &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.uuphost.org\/binghamton\/?p=1726\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1726","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uuphost.org\/binghamton\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1726","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uuphost.org\/binghamton\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uuphost.org\/binghamton\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uuphost.org\/binghamton\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uuphost.org\/binghamton\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1726"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.uuphost.org\/binghamton\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1726\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1730,"href":"https:\/\/www.uuphost.org\/binghamton\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1726\/revisions\/1730"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uuphost.org\/binghamton\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uuphost.org\/binghamton\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uuphost.org\/binghamton\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}