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Tuition Assistance Forms:

NEW FORMS - February 2010 (NOTE: These 3 documents are in Word format)

 

Women's Concerns

At the Spring Delegate Assembly, held in Albany on May 2nd and 3rd, the Women's Concerns Committee presented the following resolutions which were approved by the Delegate Assembly early Saturday (May 3rd) afternoon:

The New York State Fair Pay Act

  • Whereas, the social injustice of unequal pay for comparable work continues, oppressing women and minority workers; and

  • Whereas, a May 2007 Supreme Court decision against Lilly Ledbetter has disallowed her suit against Goodyear, a corporation which over decades deprived her of tens of thousands of dollars, paying her approximately 79 cents to every dollar earned by her male peers, thereby perpetuating this injustice; and

  • Whereas, the United States House of Representatives passed a bill intended to remedy the 2007 decision by the Roberts Court, but the Senate was unable to end a filibuster that kept the bill from a Senate vote; and

  • Whereas, in the smaller arena of New York State, the New York State Fair Pay Act, pending in the Senate, aims to guarantee the fundamental civil right of equal pay for comparable work; and

  • Whereas, on April 14, Senator Craig M. Johnson moved to have the Fair Pay Act moved out of the Senate Labor Committee and onto the Senate floor, but his motion was voted down on party lines;  therefore be it 

  • Resolved, that the Delegate Assembly request that President Smith contact Senator Johnson to discuss strategies for successful passage of this bill;  and be it further

  • Resolved, that President Smith contact all 15 members of the Senate Labor Committee to encourage them to move the bill to the Senate floor for successful passage;  and be it further

  • Resolved, that President Smith contact media, including regional and national newspapers and radio and television stations, to ensure that this issue is thoroughly reported to the public.

  • GI BILL
  • Whereas, increasing numbers of women are returning as veterans from the wars and occupations in the Middle East and Central Asia; and,

  • Whereas, many of these veterans wish to attend college on the GI bill, which, today,  offers only $1100 per month for 36 months to military veterans and $440 per month to reservists (including those who have served in Iraq); and,

  • Whereas, to improve this situation, Senator Jim Webb (Democrat, Virginia) has introduced an updated GI bill to provide all veterans with sufficient funds for college tuition at a public institution of higher education plus living expenses--similar to the benefits granted to returning veterans of World War II: and

  • Whereas, this bill is not being supported by the President, the Pentagon, and the presumptive Republican Presidential nominee; therefore,

  • Be it hereby resolved,
    That UUP request that President Smith write a statement of support for this bill, contact UUP’s affiliates to publicly join in its support, send the statement to the legislative leaders of the House and, the Senate, and make the statement available for publication in all appropriate venues.

 




UUPF SPONSORED EVENTS:

  • 9/23/2010 11 a.m. - General Meeting GLSN 204
  • 9/28/2010 - Voter Registration Day