Elmsford Regional Office: Correspondence, 1988

Complaint by Eastchester Teachers Association about NYSUT counsel Sandler (Sandner?) representation in dispute with returning suspended principal of Eastchester High School; letter from law firm Finger & Finger, offering to represent union members in Workers' Compensation cases; letter from members of United Staff Association of Putnam/North Westchester BOCES Local 3072, complaining about violations of bylaws and rules of order by NYSUT field representative and president of staff association; memo re automatic debit system; memo and related materials re Pledge of Allegiance in classrooms; letter from teacher and reply re meager wages for special education teachers; analysis of federal Medicare legislation re catastrophic costs, impact on retirees' state Empire Plan benefits; memo re changes in Empire Plan; flyers in contract dispute by United Staff Association of Putnam/Northern Westchester BOCES; letters re United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW) organizing efforts at Price Chopper in Newburgh, strained relations between labor affiliates; letter to NYSUT executive director Jim Wood from regional staff director Robert Klein urgently requesting additional staff in absence of field representatives on disability or limited work assignment, March 11