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Starting 2019 Right with TAUP: Solidarity, Organizing, Helping Students With Debt

Dear Members,

We hope your 2019 has started well!   While many of us are enjoying our well-deserved break and/or back in our labs or are busy off-campus with writing articles, preparing classes, and attending to other tasks, the work of TAUP continues.  We want to let you know about 3 upcoming opportunities:

PASNAP Picketing 1/3

A strong union shows solidarity with other unions.  The Pennsylvania Association of Staff Nurses and Allied Professionals (PASNAP), which represents nurses and other caregivers, is picketing Hahnemann Hospital tomorrow. to protest management’s refusal to accept safe staffing grids. These grids would protect patients by limiting the number of patients a nurse can be assigned at one time. TAUP members have  shown a strong interest in workload issues in our own bargaining surveys. In hospitals, heavy workloads carry the highest possible stakes. Join TAUP members in pushing back against the unsafe conditions these nurses are fighting. Hahnemann Hospital, January 3rd, from 11 a.m.-1 p.m.

TAUP Membership Drive, 1/8-10

TAUP’s negotiations with the administration will start in February. Strength at the bargaining table relies on strong membership numbers,so next week on  January 8, 9, and 10 we will be phone banking at the TAUP Office, calling prospective members.


Please join us in this important effort.

Each day:

Training: 11am – Noon

Phone Banking: Noon – 4pm


Attend one, two, or all three days! Once you’ve done the training, you don’t need to do it again to come for a few hours to make calls on another day, but we do ask that you commit to a minimum of 2 hours of phone banking on the day you attend the training. (So if you can only attend one day, minimum attendance would be 11am – 2pm). Lunch will be provided each day around Noon, and coffee all day!


Please use this RSVP Form to sign up and let us know what day(s) and time(s) you’ll be joining us:

https://goo.gl/forms/HlobnoBhXCUUpiNp2

Student Debt Clinics  1/12-1/13

Our strength as a union depends in part on how effectively we help our students.   As you know, our students are burdened with a crippling amount of debt from student loans.  That’s why TAUP is co-sponsoring  a workshop run by our national affiliate, the AFT, on Saturday and Sunday 1/12 and 1/13.  There will be an actual Student Debt Clinic incorporated into the training. The clinic is a prelude to a Town Hall on Student Debt on 1/16 from 6-8 p.m. hosted by Sara Goldrick-Rab (Education and CLA) and the Hope Center For College, Community, and Justice.

If you are interested in any of these opportunities to strengthen TAUP, please contact us at taupaft@gmail.com or 215 763-2287.

Let’s Work Together to Build our Union Membership Over Winter Break!

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Learn how to have efficient and effective organizing conversations with your colleagues, and then put that knowledge to work by making phone calls to faculty, academic staff, and librarians. We’ll be finding out which workplace issues matter most to our colleagues, and asking them to join our union!

Three Days:

Tuesday January 8th

Wednesday January 9th

Thursday January 10th

 

At the TAUP Offices: 721 Ritter Annex

 

Each day:

Training: 11am – Noon

Phone Banking: Noon – 4pm

 

Attend one, two, or all three days…

Once you’ve done the training, you can come back to make calls on any another day. We do ask that you commit to a minimum of 2 hours of phone banking on the day you attend the training.

 

Lunch will be provided each day around noon, coffee and solidarity with your colleagues all day!

 

Please use this RSVP form to sign up and let us know what day(s) and time(s) you can join us:

https://goo.gl/forms/HlobnoBhXCUUpiNp2

 

TAUP offers Long Term Care Insurance

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The Temple Association of University Professionals (TAUP) is excited to introduce a Long-Term Care insurance [LTCi] program as a benefit for our dues-paying members, underwritten by Transamerica Life Insurance Company.  Since Temple’s administration has for some years not offered this benefit and since these costs are not covered by health insurance, disability insurance or under Medicare, TAUP has decided to make this insurance benefit available to both full-time and adjunct dues-paying members on a voluntary, participant-paid basis, for a limited time only.

 

LTCi pays for the expenses associated with needing extended care at home or a stay in a Long-Term Care facility. The cost of Long-Term Care can vary based upon your location, the future costs of care and for how long care is needed.  An average stay in a Long-Term Care facility is almost 2.5 years1 and the current average cost of nursing home care in Pennsylvania  is $316/day2. Through this special offering at TAUP, you can design a Long-Term Care insurance plan that fits your unique needs and budget.

 

There are additional advantages to you under this program:

  1. Unisex Pricing is available. Most individual LTCi offerings employ gender-based pricing, where rates for women are more expensive than for males.
  2. Simplified Issue Underwriting – active employees ages 18 – 65 working at least 30 hours per week need only answer 10 Simplified Issue Health Questions.
  3. Your spouse/domestic partner, family members & extended family are also eligible to participate in the program.
  4. Couples Discounts of up to 30% are also available.

This voluntary benefit will be offered during the Long-Term Care insurance open enrollment period, which commences on January 14, 2019.  Prior to open enrollment, you can learn more during on-campus educational workshops. These will be held on Wednesday, December 5th at 12PM and 1PM in the Student Center Room 217B, and Thursday, December 6th at 12:30PM and 1:30PM in the Student Center Room 217D .  The location will be announced via email. Please CLICK HERE to RSVP today!

 

During the upcoming limited enrollment period, you will have the opportunity to meet with Harris Kivitz, our Long-Term Care Insurance Specialist, to design a plan that fits your budget. You can meet with Harris in person or online & over the phone.

 

Please note that LTCi does not make sense for everyone.  The policy-holder should have sufficient financial assets to protect in order to justify the premiums.  But even if you are not in a position to benefit from it directly, your family members may be. If you have questions about this, please contact Harris.

 

Once this enrollment period ends, the Simplified Issue Underwriting will only be available to new hires. Find out more about this new benefit and direct any questions to Harris Kivitz by calling 215.901.7905 or emailing kivitz1@verizon.net.