UHPA issued the following press release after being informed by UHPA members and the press of the content of an email message sent from President Greenwood. UHPA will immediately respond in state or federal courts should President Greenwood unilaterally implement a salary reduction. UHPA will keep you informed of any developments. (Click on the title for more information.)

Randy Perreira, J. N. Musto, and Dayton Nakanelua have signed a joint letter to the Employer-Union Health Benefits Trust Fund (EUTF).

What does this mean? Click on the title to get more information.

Graduate students and graduate student alumni at the University of Hawai'i at Manoa, write to express their solidarity with the UH faculty who voted to protect affordable, public higher education in Hawai'i. By voting to reject the university's Last Best Final Offer, the UH faculty clearly demonstrated their commitment to UH students and quality public education.

Some faculty are angered by Cataluna's column posted on October 13th. Click on the title to view the column and several faculty responses.

State must support its world-class university. Years of faculty work to raise UH's profile could be lost forever. The economy does not appear to be improving soon and fingers may now be pointing at University of Hawaii faculty with the questions: Why didn't you accept the UH administration's last best final offer? Since Gov. Linda Lingle and the UH administration aren't budging, why not take the high road and move forward for the sake of higher education? (Click on the title to view the entire opinion piece or to access the link to the Advertiser Commentary.)

Your secured ballot is found under the subject “UHPA Voting and Ballot Information.” It was sent from "Rovena Varde". If you provided UHPA with a private email address the ballot info was sent there. Otherwise, faculty who had not provided a private email address should have received the ballot info at their hawaii.edu address. If you do not see it in your inbox folder, you may need to check your spam/junk email folder. Still having problems locating the ballot? Call UHPA before 5:00 pm at (808)593-2157.

If you have not cast your ballot on the employers “Last Best Final Offer” it must be done by 11:59 p.m. tonight. If you have not received a ballot or have problems voting, please contact UHPA at 593-2157. Results of this important vote will be published on our website on October 8th. Click on the title of the news item to view an IMPORTANT NOTE.

A class grievance was filed on behalf of all members of Bargaining Unit 7 regarding the Interpretation and Application of Article XXII-E of the 2003-2009 Agreement between the University of Hawaii Professional Assembly and the Board of Regents of the University of Hawaii.

An editorial comment that appeared in The Maui News written by Vincent Linares, UHPA Board of Director.