Monthly Coordinator's Report, 1979

August, 1979. Report from Robert J. Klein, Elmsford, re negotiations (settlements and impasses), with attached newsletter from North Rockland Teachers Association, organizing efforts at Arden Hill Hospital; report by Robert J. Allen, North Country, re NYEA activity in Alexandria Bay, negotiations in Gouveneur; Ray Samson, Syracuse, re negotiations, organizing; memo from Paul Luczak re organizing at Strong Memorial Hospital, Rochester General, with attached anti-union letters to nurses from management; reports from Howard Edelman, Nassau, re negotiations, organizing; report from Tony Ficcio, NYC, re organizing; Suffolk summer regional report from John DeGregorio re negotiations, organizing at Riverhead Nursing Home and Southside Hospital; Stan Kern, Mid-Hudson, re impasses, need to be alert for payroll technique by which employers pay their employees' half of payroll tax, then reimburse themselves by lowering the employees' gross pay by that amount, thereby lowering the base on which the employer's half of Social Security is paid, and adversely affecting employees' retirement and other benefits, which are based on that lower gross pay; Vinnie Grove, Utica, re negotiations at impasse, new local presidents; Leon Lieberman, Albany, re negotiations/settlements, organizing; Frank Squillace, Syracuse, re organizing, with attached clipping from Oneida Dispatch; Chuck Rodgers, Southern Tier, re Ithaca College case before NLRB, other organizing, bargaining; Ron Uba, Western NY, re NYEA activities, organizing; UUP report from Evelyn Hartman