{"id":1099173,"date":"2026-03-18T23:35:32","date_gmt":"2026-03-19T03:35:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uuphost.org\/newpaltzwp\/?p=1099173"},"modified":"2026-03-18T23:35:57","modified_gmt":"2026-03-19T03:35:57","slug":"statewide-negotiations-update-viewing-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uuphost.org\/newpaltzwp\/statewide-negotiations-update-viewing-party\/","title":{"rendered":"Statewide Negotiations Update Viewing Party"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-medium-font-size\"><strong>Wednesday, March 25 from 12-1pm<br>Faculty Development Center, College Hall&nbsp;<br><em>Refreshments will be served<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Dear Colleagues:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Contract Negotiations are underway! &nbsp;We are aiming both for an on-time contract, and a strong contract that meets the diverse needs of UUP members.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Join Fred Kowal (UUP President) and Bret Benjamin (UUP Chief Contract Negotiator)&nbsp;on <strong>March&nbsp;25 from 12 to 1pm&nbsp;<\/strong>for a <strong>statewide zoom update<\/strong> about ongoing bargaining discussions, and how all of us can get involved to help build the strongest possible contract campaign.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>We encourage you to join your New Paltz Chapter watch party in the Faculty Development Center (College Hall), or you may register&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/aft.zoom.us\/meeting\/register\/3-BgebUJTmW6QO8BAKJdcQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">HERE<\/a>&nbsp;to join the Zoom on your own.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">For our contract kick-off call in early February we broke the zoom by having too many people logging on. We\u2019ve doubled our capacity for this one, but challenge our members&nbsp;break it again. How\u2019s this?&nbsp; Every time you break the zoom, we double our capacity!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">See you on the 25th.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Yours in union,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Fred and Bret<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wednesday, March 25 from 12-1pmFaculty Development Center, College Hall&nbsp;Refreshments will be served Dear Colleagues: Contract Negotiations are underway! &nbsp;We are aiming both for an on-time contract, and a strong contract that meets the diverse needs of UUP members.&nbsp; Join Fred Kowal (UUP President) and Bret Benjamin (UUP Chief Contract Negotiator)&nbsp;on March&nbsp;25 from 12 to 1pm&nbsp;for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[135,146],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uuphost.org\/newpaltzwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1099173"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uuphost.org\/newpaltzwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uuphost.org\/newpaltzwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uuphost.org\/newpaltzwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uuphost.org\/newpaltzwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1099173"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.uuphost.org\/newpaltzwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1099173\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1099175,"href":"https:\/\/www.uuphost.org\/newpaltzwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1099173\/revisions\/1099175"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uuphost.org\/newpaltzwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1099173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uuphost.org\/newpaltzwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1099173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uuphost.org\/newpaltzwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1099173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}