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/
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.