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UUP Given Paid Family Leave Under New Pact

By CRYSTAL LEWIS
Posted 5/30/18

The United University Professions became the first public-sector union to negotiate a state paid-family-leave plan as part of a contract agreement reached May 24.

The pact, which expires July 1, 2022, includes six two-percent annual salary increases and minimum starting salaries for adjuncts. Employees will be able to use paid leave beginning next year. Negotiations took almost two years, and one of the most important issues to the union’s 42,000 State University of New York faculty members was reaching a deal on paid leave.

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