Suffolk Regional Office: Correspondence, 1989

Legal complaint, Jeanette Clancy vs. Center Moriches Union Free School District Board of Education, with cover letter from Clancy to president of NYSUT, requesting refund of two years' dues, accusing union field representative of failure of duty of fair representation, March 10, with exhibit, teachers contract, September 1, 1987 August 31, 1991; related correspondence, May; memo to NYSUT counsel from field representative re nurse at Brookhaven hospital, charged by State Education Department for two errors in patient medication during one night shift at Southside, noting short staffing, November 15; regional reports, January 31 and October 27; document promoting value of public schools on Long Island; memo to local presidents from regional staff director inviting them to a strategy conference with school boards and administrators to counteract the "tax revolt" sentiment among citizen activist groups defeating school budget proposals, September 25; memo to NYSUT legal counsel inquiring whether there was any strong action the union could take against an anti-union (agency fee payer) teacher in the Middle Country school district (Centereach High School) who had been harassing the union for ten years, with attached letter from teacher to colleagues, July 7; letter from Jim Conti to field representative granting permission to negotiate a contract for a Jewish school as an independent activity, October 12, with earlier memo to file noting denial of permission because of conflict of interest; confidential memo to Jim Conti re negotiations with Suffolk County Community College and Brookhaven Hospital, June 2; memos re 3020a charges, filing problems, in Commack school district, May; letter from Jim Conti to insurance consultant Martin E. Segal Company requesting consultation with Nassau and Suffolk staff re self-insurance alternative to Empire Plan, February 13; confidential memo re letter to the editor of New York Teacher from teacher in Smithtown objecting to local's attendance incentive clause for distribution of Excellence In Teaching (EIT) funds, asserting that formula penalized teachers who became ill or had family emergencies, February 8; memo from Jim Conti re operational policy prohibiting attempts to organize locals already or recently represented by an AFL-CIO union, February 10; report by New York Committee for Occupational Safety and Health, "Industrial Hygiene Investigation of Darkrooms, Ammerman Campus and Techni Center, Suffolk County Community College," December 19, 1988; letter from Central Islip Teachers Association, with chronology of filing of complaint to force district to comply with NYS Right to Know Law and federal OSHA Hazard Communication Standard, January 12