UUPers press lawmakers to unlock SUNY funds

UUP member Ivan Steen of UAlbany, right, urges Assembly Majority Leader Ron Canestrari to use his influence to stop the state’s order to SUNY to freeze nearly $110 million it collects from SUNY students and public hospital patients. Canestrari is accompanied by his aide Stephanie Sorrentino. (more)

Union, advocates rally to release SUNY funds

Chanting, “Hey, hey, ho, ho, SUNY cuts have got to go,” more than 300 members of United University Professions and other advocates rallied at the state Capitol in Albany urging Gov. Paterson to allow SUNY to spend nearly $110 million in revenues it collects from students and hospital patients that the state Division of the Budget has frozen. (more)

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From left, UUPers Patty Bentley of Plattsburgh, Treasurer Rowena Blackman-Stroud of Brooklyn HSC, and Tom Matthews of Geneseo like what they hear at the 2008 NYSUT RA held in Manhattan April 10-12. All three won re-election to new three-year terms on the NYSUT Board of Directors. UUP President Phil Smith also won election to an at-large seat on the NYSUT board. (more)