Buffalo Regional Office: Correspondence, 1990

Memo to NYSUT Board of Directors re proposal to build new Western NY Regional Office, with attached packet from Ciminelli Development Company, August 14; letter to regional staff director Ron Uba from president of North Tonawanda United Teachers, alleging continued inappropriate language, innuendo, by NYSUT rep, with confidential reply assuring monitoring of situation, August-September; correspondence between Uba and Lancaster School District transportation supervisor re negotiations, May; memo re union's role in negotiating 3020a cases, with attached PERB case re Binghamton Firefighters, March 8; chain letter from Ron Uba in support of ending apartheid in South Africa, initiated by member of the University of South Africa, December 11; letter to employees of Resource Center from Resource Center United Employees urging that they sign card authorizing representation election for NYSUT, and related flyers comparing wages and benefits of unionized vs. non-unionized workers; memo to Jim Conti re retirement problem for employee of Gowanda school district who was never properly informed of his right to enroll in the NYS retirement system, September; Improper Practice Charge by Buffalo Teachers Federation NEA against Buffalo Board of Education, with cover memo to Ron Uba, October 22; memo from Jim Conti to NYSUT legal counsel asking whether certain questions on a physical examination questionnaire for new hires and tenure candidates at Barker Central School were legal, related to smoking status, birth control status, number of pregnancies, number of living children, October; letter to NYSUT President Hobart from Assemblyman William Hoyt on behalf of teacher at Lake Shore Central Schools who was denied tenure, JulySeptember, with related correspondence; request for legal opinion re librarian at Springville Elementary School, who was asked by principal (believed to suspect librarian of stealing) to turn over usage records for a number of books, question of whether names of borrowers could be masked out, with copy of federal rules of evidence re library records, May; letter from Lancaster Association of Service Personnel thanking Jim Conti for use of video produced by Pennsylvania Department of Transportation, October 4; reminder to local presidents to send representatives to Labor Day parade, with attached list of participating organizations and lineup, August 27; memos re controversy over Orchard Park dues for support staff (SRPs), with attached salary schedule, old and new dues rates, May-June; Redbook article on sick building syndrome, April; memo to Jim Conti re salary problem at Niagara Association for Retarded Citizen's Union, February 15, and related correspondence and documents, including memorandum from the state Office of Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities, July 14, 1988; memo re erosion of retiree health benefits, arbitration case and Improper Practice Charge in Amherst district, February 14, 1990, with attached decision of PERB administrative law judge, 1984, collateral incentive service agreement, April 1980; memo to Jim Conti re requirement by Niagara Falls School District that all physical education teachers pass rigorous American Red Cross Lifeguard Review Training Course, assertion by teachers that they should not be required to become lifeguards, question of whether refusal would constitute insubordination, January 25; memo and flyer re NYSUT Instructional Leadership Conference, January 12