Coordinator's Reports, 1979

December, 1979. Activity reports to Vito DeLeonardis from service centers: Tony Ficcio (NYC), re meetings with Lay Faculty Association, Federation of Catholic Teachers, Long Island University Brooklyn Center, and United Staff Association (USA) of New York University, December 12; John DeGregorio (Suffolk) re UFT nurses organizing, strategies for competing with SEIU (portraying it as the "retail clerk's union"), December 17; DeGregorio's regional report, December 3; John O'Leary (PEF) to John Kraemer re contract grievances, steward training, December 3; Howard Edelman (Nassau) re negotiations, organizing (ceased at Franklin General Hospital), December 10; Leon Lieberman (Albany) re organizing Guilderland School Nurses, Guilderland Office Workers Association, Niskayuna Aides Association, Fonda-Fultonville Non-Instructional Employees Association, South Colonie SRPs, and St. Clare's Hospital nurses, with additional note re "cataclysmic" year at Albany office over staff discipline issues, December 12; monthly report from Chuck Rodgers (Vestal-Elmira) re organizing, workshops, December 12; Stan Kern (Mid-Hudson) re new restrictive sick leave policy at two school districts, December 14; Vinnie Grove (Utica) re negotiations, December 14; Frank Squillace (Syracuse), re workshops, Sandy Creek election, organizing, danger of disaffiliation of Onondaga-Madison BOCES Federation of Teachers, December 12; Robert J. Allen (North Country: Potsdam, Plattsburgh, Watertown), Robert G. Klein (Elmsford), re negotiations, Ray Samson (Rochester), re organizing at Strong Memorial Hospital, December 17, Ron Uba (Western NY), noting how tenuous relations were with locals, vote by Albion Teachers Association, December 17