Coordinator's Reports, 1977

June-September, 1977. Report from Tony Ficcio, noting "unberable" (sic) workload at NYC office, need for more secretarial and field staff to service 2,000 members, 17 bargaining units, four UUP campuses, an election and an organizing drive, September 8; Tony Ficcio memo of July 20 re staffing situation at NYC office, noting ratio of members to staff was 1,938:1; Tony Ficcio report of August 16, re negotiations at various Catholic schools (Lay Faculty Association) and Lexington School for the Deaf; by-weekly report from John O'Leary, Nassau Service Center, complaining about staffing levels, telling Vito DeLeonardis "you make my job impossible," noting especially that staff are taken away for "stupid, asinine, unplanned AFT assignments," September 30; O'Leary bi-weekly report of September 16, noting eight unresolved contracts and two strikes, terrible situation at Roosevelt; monthly report from C. N. Rodgers re Vestal/Elmira NYSUT Summer Leadership Conference, with attached materials and newsletters, September 20; Rodgers report of July 11; brochure re Maine Endwell Teachers United (METU); copy of NYEA Advocate, September 1977; lengthy letter from Jack Fallon to R. I. Allen, justifying large number of phonecalls from Mid-Hudson office of one minute or less, noting that these usually were requests for call-backs when party was unavailable, saving the office money on longer calls, noting also that calls to NYC were to arbitrators, since arbitration case load had increased dramatically, July 8; coordinator's reports from Leon Lieberman, Robert G. Klein (Elmsford), re negotiations, potential organizing targets, John DeGregorio (Suffolk) re NYEA activity, Robert Allen (North Country), June