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UHPA Responds to Governor’s 20% Pay Cut Announcement

Aloha Bargaining Unit 7 Faculty: Yesterday, Governor David Ige announced a unilateral decision to impose a 20% pay cut for State employees, effective May 1, 2020. (First responders will receive a 10% pay cut.) Many UHPA members have expressed their outrage and confusion. We want to reassure you that the Governor has no legal authority, right, or privilege to unilaterally negate or disregard our current Unit 7 contract. While he and other State officials may attempt to impose this pay cut as [...]

UHPA2020-04-15T19:35:49-10:00April 15, 2020|COVID19, Frontpage|

Handy list of shortcut links to COVID-19 State Resources

Governor David Ige’s – Third Supplemental Proclamation DLIR – How to Apply for Unemployment Insurance DOH – How to Prevent the Spread of COVID-19 DOH – Up-to-date COVID-19 Hawaii Statistics DOT – Coronavirus Info and Resources DOA – Inter-island Travel Declaration Form DCCA – Landlord-Tenant Code Hawaii State Senate YouTube Channel To participate in the 2020 U.S. Census From U.S. Senator Brian Schatz (D-HI), information about the CARES Act (H.R. 748) and Family First Coronavirus Response SBA – Paycheck Protection Program Application [...]

Sarah Beamer2020-04-10T14:51:37-10:00April 9, 2020|COVID19, Frontpage, Newsletter|

Tell us about faculty stepping up to the Coronavirus challenge

COVID-19 is creating difficult challenges for UH Faculty and we are rising to the occasion. All of us know someone who is going beyond the call, for example: extraordinary work with students and our community, putting themselves in harm's way, developing innovations to fight COVID-19, creating bio-based products to reduce the virus’s spread, increasing food security and sustainability, and other efforts to help our community cope with this pandemic. Please share with us stories about our faculty stepping up to the Coronavirus [...]

UHPA2020-04-05T13:48:34-10:00April 5, 2020|COVID19|

Faculty Working From Home

Message from UHPA Executive Director Christian Fern and UH Vice President Don Straney on behalf of the UHPA-UH Joint Workgroup This message is to clarify the University's intent regarding its new "work from home" form and its application to University faculty. To reiterate, instructional faculty (including lecturers), research faculty, graduate assistants, and other faculty who are not normally expected to be on campus during set working hours, are not required to fill out the work from home form or create a work [...]

Web RV Editor2020-04-03T19:39:30-10:00March 30, 2020|COVID19, Frontpage, Newsletter, UH Administration, UHPA Organizational|

Message from UHPA Executive Director Christian Fern and UH Vice President Don Straney on behalf of the UHPA-UH Joint Workgroup

Last week, the Temporary Remote Teaching Workgroup—a combined effort of the University of Hawaii Professional Assembly and UH administrators—met to review the support and resources available to faculty preparing for the transition to working with students who were not on campus. Several recent proclamations from the Governor and Mayors probably made your preparations more challenging. This week, we have been monitoring the initial stages of implementing last week’s planning on each of the 10 UH campuses. The initial reports are that you [...]

Web RV Editor2020-04-03T19:39:57-10:00March 27, 2020|COVID19, Frontpage, Newsletter, UH Administration, UHPA Organizational|

UHPA MODIFIED OPERATIONS

Due to the unprecedented situation of the COVID-19 pandemic, as well as Mayor Caldwell’s Emergency Order No. 2020-02 (COVID-19 [Novel Coronavirus]) Stay at home/Work from home order, UHPA is modifying its operations to ensure that we can continue to fully service and represent our Faculty Members in the most efficient and transparent manner. UHPA’s normal business hours will remain unchanged; operating Monday - Friday from 8:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. In order to honor social distancing, a few of UHPA support staff [...]

Web RV Editor2020-04-03T19:40:18-10:00March 24, 2020|COVID19, Frontpage, Newsletter, UHPA Organizational|

UHPA Update on COVID-19 Working Conditions

On Friday, March 13, 2020, UHPA met with UH administrators and voiced our concerns for the health and safety of our membership as a whole, as well as, making sure all Faculty Members received the required support, services, resources, etc. to help with the transition to on-line instruction, as well as, other conditions as they may arise. UH agreed with UHPA that a working group should commence immediately to address these concerns that UHPA raised and jointly noticed all Faculty Members of [...]

Web RV Editor2020-04-03T19:40:37-10:00March 24, 2020|COVID19, Frontpage, Newsletter, UH Administration|

UHPA Responds to UH’s Online Conversion

UHPA Executive Director Christian Fern responds to UH President David Lassner's email regarding the plans for online course conversion. 200312 Ltr to D. Lassner re COVID-19

Web RV Editor2020-04-03T19:41:05-10:00March 12, 2020|COVID19, Frontpage, Newsletter, UH Administration, UHPA Organizational|

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