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Elections The biennial UUP chapter elections are taking place this month. UUP follows a legally rigorous election procedure in all elections. In this issue You should have received your ballot along with two envelopes at home in the mail already. Professionals Corner Please read the directions, vote, and mail your ballot back in the President’s Message postage paid envelope. Be sure to use the secret ballot envelope to be placed in the mailing envelope. Your ballot type is based on your membership—professional or academic—but the same ballot is sent to both full-time and part-time staff. This year Farmingdale has been allotted eleven academic delegates and six professional delegates who have the right to attend and vote at the semiannual Delegate Assembly. This number has increased based on the growing size of our campus membership. If you decide to write in your name or the name of someone else for any position on the ballot, you can and should do so on the write-in line. Finally, be sure to mail in your ballot so that it is received by April 10, 2019. We are fortunate at Farmingdale that so many members volunteer to serve actively in UUP. We are the largest higher education union in the country, working together to support and protect the professional and academic careers of over 42,000 members. Your right to vote in your union election is precious.  UUPF Office Ward Hall First Floor, West Wing GENERAL MEMBERSHIP MEETING Thursday, March 28, 2019 Tel: 631-694-UUPF (8873) Fax: 631-694-3370 11:00 am  Gleeson Hall room 104

[email protected] Please join your fellow UUPF members for lunch. www.uupfarm.org Unifier MARCH 2019 Professionals’ Corner Salaried, Hourly or What? By Harry Gabriel Espaillat

The fact that many people have  Have fixed working hours— been misguided by either we don’t, we have core inaccurate information passed working hours down by HR or by some of our  Do not have performance own members who heard it from programs—we do someone else, it does not mean The biggest confusion about that our contract is not being professionals involves our work violated. The notion that schedules. There are very good professionals at Farmingdale are reasons for the confusion since hourly employees is most likely department needs vary. We the result of a spread of work based on professional misinformation. In some areas, obligation and we are, by and professionals are being subjected large, not hourly employees. to questionable practices, and we Professionals are expected to need to work together to rectify perform like professionals, the situation. and not to abuse the flexibility I want to share with you that comes with it. UUP does some pertinent information not condone abuse of our regarding our professional status contract by either our and the topic that I discussed members or administration. Spring Fling with our UUP leaders in Albany. If you feel that you have Membership Event Professionals, unless otherwise been tethered to your desk, if at stated by our appointment letter, your paycheck is being CHANGING TIMES are not considered “hourly” docked, or if you have employees. Our work is based questions regarding your TUESDAY on professional responsibilities. professional “schedule”, April 30th We have a Performance Program please contact me at x2196, describing our responsibilities. Yolanda Segarra at x2180, or at 4:00 PM These responsibilities provide Solomon Ayo at x2061 for APPETIZERS the guidelines for our annual assistance. & TWO FREE DRINKS evaluation by our supervisors. A workshop for part-time We can say that hourly professionals has been Compliments of employees: scheduled for April 30th. Stay Your UUP Chapter tuned for further information  Clock in and out—we don’t via email. Everyone is Raffle for two $50 GCs  Get paid overtime—we welcome to attend. Winners must be present don’t, unless our position is  PLEASE RSVP: [email protected] overtime-eligible

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Just a couple of weeks ago we So how does the staff of FSC heard about a new “Extra Service measure up to these median Processing Procedure” (ESPP) annual salaries? and form, fancier than any According to February 2019 previous ones, that our members data, FSC has around 1,226 were to complete in order to do employees. By a quick count: extra service. Unfortunately, Those earning more than the using this ESPP can affect our Suffolk County median: 8% members by disallowing some Those earning more than the people, especially professionals, Nassau County median: 3.9% from continuing to do their usual That means around 99 extra service. employees earn more than Why does this matter? And Suffolk’s median family income, more important, given the heavy and around 48 make the cut in workloads that many of us must that’s close to the NYC minimum Nassau. Nineteen of the latter bear, why do our members want salary of $15 per hour. group are management. Others to do extra service in the first But getting back to the among the 48 have worked at the place? original question: staff members college twenty, thirty, even forty There may be two reasons: may need to earn extra income at years. They have devoted a 1. Devotion to the college, to the FSC through overtime (CSEA) or lifetime of work at Farmingdale. educational experience of our extra service (UUP). But what about the other students, to the heady Obviously, our valuable and 1,127 folks who work here? challenge of new and varied successful professional or Maybe they are financially okay- responsibilities, to enriching classified staff members wish to because they are lucky enough to engagement with other earn a few extra thousand dollars, share a home with another wage college staff members, OR so that they can climb up to a earner, or they have really clever 2. Money. somewhat higher income level, investments, or they have toward the median on Long lucrative second jobs. I wish to address Reason #2. Island. So let’s not have the And, as a side note, don’t First, two facts: College create roadblocks to forget that FSC has many full- extra service in any procedural Median Family Income 2018* : time employees who work twelve shape or form. Suffolk County…….$94,750 months of the year and earn an Let’s respect the workers here Nassau County……$108,133 annual salary of around $30,000; at FSC and help— not block— their efforts to succeed. UPCOMING EVENTS: th In Solidarity, APRIL 11 ACADEMIC MEMBERS WORKSHOP Vicki Janik APRIL 16th DEPARTMENT REPRESENTATIVES MEETING th ______APRIL 18 GENERAL MEMBERSHIP MEETING olivia.winslow@newsdaycom, September 13, th APRIL 30 PROFESSIONAL MEMBERS WORKSHOP 2018. Median is the value separating the upper APRIL 30th SPRING FLING half from the lower half of a data sample. MAY 2nd PRE-RETIREMENT WORKSHOP

3 Unifier MARCH 2019 Celebrating Women’s History Month Heroic US Nurses Named Clara: Barton — American Red Cross Maass — Fight Against By Daniel Scott Marrone

Clarissa “Clara” Harlowe nurses tend the sick and Barton (December 25, 1821 – wounded. Barton dramatically April 12, 1912) was a pioneering changed that dynamic by number of soldiers, she assisted American nurse that achieved volunteering at the battle lines. in amputations, dressed wounds, many stellar achievements. She In doing this, she risked intense and in many instances served as successfully demonstrated that danger. Consequently, the U.S. a surrogate mother/wife for battlefield nursing resulted in the Army at first rejected her delirious soldiers. The surrender saving of lives during the Civil overtures for tending the of Confederate General Robert War (1861-1865). Specifically, wounded in combat areas. E. Lee at Appomattox brought she and the female nurses who However, as casualties escalated an end (save for skirmishes out joined in her effort alleviated in staggering numbers, military west) in the fighting, but the suffering for literally thousands authorities withdrew any suffering lingered long after the of Union soldiers. Following the reservations regarding the war. This distress was not only war, she established the “Office invaluable assistance Barton physical, but also social. Barton of Missing Soldiers”—an provided. She set an example for discovered that thousands of agency devoted to identifying other women to volunteer as letters from distraught family soldiers and re-connecting them nurses. At the bloody Battle of relatives to the War Department with their families. Later, she Antietam, her nursing efforts were going unanswered. The founded the American Red proved to be invaluable. That government neither had the staff Cross, a nongovernment battle resulted in the largest nor the method for locating and organization that from its single-day death toll and was identifying soldiers. Many were inception has followed the also the eighth costliest battle of killed in action or succumbed principles of the International the entire war. When the fighting shortly after battle, others were Red Cross. This Swiss-based ceased on the evening of languishing in makeshift organization was formed September 17, 1862, 22,717 hospitals spread across the once following the Crimean War soldiers were killed (on both divided, but now painfully (1853-1856) through the sides), and an even greater reuniting nation. Unable to deal groundbreaking efforts of British number were wounded lying with this problem, the War nurse Florence Nightingale. prostate in open fields or Department just stamped Clara went on to help establish encrusted in muddy gullies. “Missing” to inquiries from nursing schools across the Clara worked tirelessly for relatives. nation. weeks tending the wounded in This was a social crisis that Prior to the Civil War, it was an era before antibiotics and began as soon as the casualties commonplace to have only male painkillers. For an untold mounted. By the midpoint of the

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war, Clara asked to see President including the Clara Barton High Abraham Lincoln to address this School for Health Professions problem. The 16th president located in Brooklyn. In 1973, readily agreed to have Barton she was posthumously inducted receive funding to set up the in the National Women’s Hall of “Office of Missing Soldiers” at Fame. In 2015, the Clara 437½ Seventh Street, Northwest Barton's Missing Soldiers Office Washington, D.C. In the years Museum, run by the National during and following the war, Museum of Civil War Medicine, Clara and her assistants opened in the small office she responded to 41,855 inquiries originally occupied in Northwest that resulting in 22,000 soldiers Washington, D.C. being identified as killed in action or in hospitals. With Army Corps and then with the additional funding, she oversaw U.S. Army Contract Nurse Eighth U.S. Army Corps in the identification and burial of Clara Maass: Martyr in bases located in Florida, over 13,000 Union soldiers that Finding a Cure for Yellow Georgia, Cuba, and The died while incarcerated in Fever Philippines. She developed an Andersonville, a disgraceful expertise in treating those POW prison camp in Georgia. Nurse Clara Maass (June 28, suffering from infectious She then organized the Ameri- 1876 – August 24, 1901) diseases including dengue, can Red Cross, a nongovern- literally gave her life in the , typhoid, and the number mental organization closely struggle for finding a cure for one killer: Yellow Fever. She linked to the International Red the dreaded Yellow Fever. Born contracted while Cross. For the remainder of her in East Orange, New Jersey, to stationed in Manila and was sent long life she advocated for and German Lutheran immigrant home to recuperate. Recovering secured donations for establish- parents, Clara enrolled, at age quickly, she was summoned in ing nursing schools throughout 16, in the newly formed Newark October 1900 by Dr. William the nation. Her legacy includes a German Hospital’s Christina Crawford Gorgas (1854-1920) monument to her at the Antietam Trefz Training School for of the U.S. Army Yellow Fever Battleground site, scores of Nurses. In 1895, she was one of Commission to assist in the government honors and medals, its first graduates. She then study for the cause of and cure and over 60 roads and villages practiced in the same hospital. for this deadly disease. Major nationwide bearing her name. Through intelligence and headed the No less than four-dozen medical diligence she was promoted to Commission that was necessitat- and nursing institutes and Head Nurse at age 21. In ed by the widespread outbreak schools are named after her February 1898, the battleship affecting many soldiers USS Maine was blown up and remaining in Cuba. In fact, far sank with many lives lost off the more soldiers died from the coast of Cuba. In April of that fever than from battle wounds. year, the U.S.A. declared war on Soon it was determined that Spain and the Spanish-American human subjects were needed to War ensued. Immediately, Clara investigate possible prevention volunteered as an independent and amelioration treatments. In contractor nurse for the U.S. the first use of “Informed Army. (Poignantly, the U.S. Consent”, human subjects were Army Nursing Corps was fully informed (told) before established in 1901, the year she testing of the risks including gave her life for her country.) death endemic with experimen- From 1898 to mid-1900, she served with the Seventh U.S. ...continue on page 6

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By Barbara Maertz There are many questions to retirement plans. Of course, will retirement?” It is a scary answer when the thoughts start the money last and can I question to consider for some. turning to the big decision to maintain my current lifestyle Several retirees will be present stop working and retire. are worries that we are all to help with the lifestyle options Benefits concerns, like dental familiar with. and your continued benefits and vision, health insurance and UUPF wants to answer from UUP as a member of the when do I go on Medicare Part some of these questions for you Active Retirees group. B, are some of the biggest. at our Pre-Retirement seminar Anyone within five years of Deciding how to set up spousal on Thursday, May 2,2019 at retirement is welcome to attend. benefits and eligibility to 3PM in Gleason Room 204. Please rsvp to Debbie Amato at continue insurance or legal Walter Apple, UUP Coordinator the UUPF office 631-694-8873 benefits may be some of the for Retirees will be presenting or [email protected] so others. When is the best time of benefits options for UUP and that sufficient information the year to retire and can I NYSUT/AFT Benefits. He will booklets can be made available change my decisions, are discuss the Social Security, for you. concerns for some people? Medicare options as well as the Dan Marrone, the Retiree Many of us are unsure how benefits UUP provides for UUP Committee chair on the UUPF to take monetary distributions Members. Executive Board, and I will see and which funds to use to take Oh Yes, the lifestyle you there. payments from our optional question!” What do I do in 

Continued from page 4 ation. Those who signed on to 18, 1901. This time the disease employed to kill mosquito undergo experimentation was far more virulent and she larvae. While Yellow Fever defined the term, “courageous”. suffered in agony for six days, cases are rare in the U.S.A., In March 1901, Clara finally succumbing on August however the disease does persist volunteered to be bitten by a 24. News of her death caused a in other countries! mosquito known to carry the nation to grieve. Testing on Clara was buried with full fever. She contracted a humans, even those who signed military honors in Fairmount relatively mild case of the “Informed Consent”, was Cemetery in Newark, near disease and quickly recovered. paused until improved safety where she trained as a nurse. On Due to her speedy recovery measures could be implement- June 19, 1952, this hospital was from Yellow Fever, she became ed. That said, there is always renamed Clara Maass Memorial a prime subject to test for risk in testing of human Hospital. Fourteen years later, immunization. The hypothesis subjects. Eventually, infected the American Nurses Associa- was that perhaps a mild case mosquitos were found to be the tion inducted Clara into its would immunize (prevent source of Yellow Fever. Nursing Hall of Fame. The death) from the full-blown Massive sanitary measures were Calendar of Saints of the illness. With immense bravery, taken in occupied Cuba and Lutheran Church honors Clara later in Panama while building she agreed to be bitten again by Maass every August 13 for a mosquito carrying the disease. the canal to mitigate the disease. “Giving her life to help She once more contracted the Water puddles were eliminated humanity”. and eradication sprays were disease. The date was August 

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By Robert Elgart

IDAP Awards will be made for documents/2018/12/individual- two periods: development-award-application- April 1, 2017—July 1, 2018 and 12-2018.pdf July 2, 2018—July 1, 2019. You must do the following Funds not encumbered in the to be considered for an award. 1st period will be rolled over to  Submit all required infor- the 2nd period. mation requested on the Deadlines: April 1, 2019 for application form. the 1st period and May 1, 2019  Submit the Budgetary reimbursements by indicat- for the 2nd period (5 p.m. cut off Summary (This is required). ing proof of registration. for each).  Submit an updated brief  Plan an activity that benefits You may apply for both curriculum vitae. you and the College or periods, but priority will be  Submit a brochure an- Department. given to one award per person. nouncement or other relevant  Submit three (3) copies to Maximum award is $1,000.00. material describing activi- the IDAP Committee. 15% of our allocations ties, e.g. conference, course,  The award must be claimed ($12,681 for 1st period, $27,786 research, or workshop. within thirty (30) days. for 2nd period) will be reserved Include other supporting  You must submit original initially for part-time employees. documentation, e.g. a letter receipts along with a travel Please follow the Guidelines from a conference coordina- voucher (conference) or for Applicants in the Joint UUP/ tor, or academic institution. requisition (coursework) at New York State Professional  Supply documentation on that time. Development Award application projected costs, e.g. infor- process for professional activi- mation on airfares and Submit Applications to ties. Applications are available lodging or receipts if the Robert Elgart, Biology Depart- on the UUP website: activity already took place. ment or UUPF Office-Ward www.uupinfo.org At the bottom Check the travel page at Hall. Late or incomplete of the page, click on JLM Grant Farmingdale.edu for per applications will not be pro- Programs, then go to, diem rates. Reimbursement cessed. “Application Information” and for car travel is .58/mile. Note: If attending a SUNY “Grant Opportunities”, where (Not allowed if department institution, you should apply for forms are under “Professional covers) a Course Waiver since IDAP Development.”  Include photocopies of will not apply. If outside SUNY Applications are also receipts. Record expenses you’re entitled to $286-$295 per accessible at: https:// carefully in the Budget credit for the course. goer.ny.gov/system/files/ Summary. Justify tuition 

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Vicki Janik President Lou Scala VP Academics Harry Espaillat VP Professionals Susan Conforti Treasurer Debbie Nilsen Secretary Doug Cody Officer for Contingents Barbara Maertz Officer for Retirees

DELEGATES Academic Amit Bandyopadhay Doug Cody Bob Elgart James Jailer Daniel Marrone John Masserwick Fayez Samuel Lou Scala Mike Smiles Tino Posillico Professional Solomon Ayo Darleyne Mayers Barbara Maertz Yolanda Segarra Kristen Malsheimer —————————————- Committee Chairs:

EOC Casey Bond Grievance: Academic Amit Bandyopadhay Grievance: Professional Solomon Ayo Health & Safety CHAPTER MEMBERS on STATEWIDE COMMITTEES Robert Elgart Labor/Management Solomon O. Ayo Harry Espaillat Barbara T. Maertz Mike Smiles Affirmative Action Technology Issues Active Retired Membership Library Concerns Grievance Comm of VPs for Professionals Finance Kathryn Machin Amit Bandyopadhyay Sandy Hustedt Outreach Membership Contingent Employment Membership Committee Darleyne E. Mayers Tom Germano Douglas S. Cody Vicki K. Janik Affirmative Action * Contingent Employment Comm of Chapter Presidents Deborah-Ann R. Nilsen Newsletter Susan Conforti Contingent Employment Membership Yolanda Segarra Finance Women’s Rights and Concerns * Louis Scala Outreach Comm of VPs for Academics Darleyne Mayers *Committee Chair Active Retirees Daniel Marrone Webmaster The UUPF Newsletter welcomes articles and letters submitted by members of the Farmingdale community. Remember, Harry Espaillat this is your newsletter. Share your thoughts with us. We want to hear from you. Persons who have material they wish to Women’s Rights & Concerns submit should contact Yolanda Segarra at [email protected] The opinions expressed in this newsletter are those of the Dolores Ciaccio contributors and not necessarily those of UUPF.