PEF: General Correspondence (1 of 2), 1978

Western Union telegram to PERB from Jerry Wurf, president, American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME), requesting holding action on PEF representation petition for NYS technical employees pending completion of AFL-CIO Article XX proceeding for settlement of internal disputes, April 21, 1978; copy of telegram to George Meany, president, AFL-CIO, from Al Shanker, AFT, and George Hardy, SEIU, asserting that Article XX charge by AFSCME itself violated Article XX, April 24; related correspondence; PERB certification of PEF and order to negotiate, September 27, 1978; related decision; CSEA legal briefs in state Supreme Court, decision and order in Appellate Division, SeptemberOctober; letter from NYSUT counsel James Sandner to NYS Office of Employee Relations, outlining plan for transition of representation by CSEA to PEF, September 25; letter from Sandner to state comptroller Arthur Levitt, re Public Employees Federation Policy on Agency Fee Dues Refunds, September 25; Agreement and Declaration of Trust Establishing the Public Employees Federation Group Benefits Program, September 26; proposed by-laws; list of members of PEF Negotiations Advisory Committee; list of members of PEF Executive Board; Steward's Manual; PEF Job Group Breakout, number of persons in each federal occupational category by state agency; tentative list, interim Executive Board, August 10; list of members of Wage & Policy Committee; memo to PEF Steering Committee, "To Do Immediately upon Certification," September 20; PEF campaign update to Al Shanker, AFT, and George Hardy, SEIU, from Vito DeLeonardis and John Geagan, April 6; letters from DeLeonardis to individual NYSUT service center directors, thanking them for help in PEF campaign, April 18; PEF update from Jim Conti to Tom Hobart, April 17; list of logistical questions re transition to PEF, from Jim Conti to Tom Hobart, April 17; confidential list of questions by field representatives re governance, from Conti to Hobart, April 17; confidential memo from Conti to Hobart re suggested staffing and service program for PEF, April 17; letter from Vito DeLeonardis to Al Shanker and Tom Hobart requesting meeting to discuss major issues re transfer of power from CSEA to PEF, April 13; letter to Vito DeLeonardis from NYC coordinator Tony Ficcio describing work by staff to accomplish PEF victory, April 15; letter from Tony Ficcio to Jim Conti, urging that control of servicing New York City be maintained by NYSUT regardless of eventual structure of PEF governance, noting political activism of members, April 18; anti-CSEA flyers, criticizing holdup of collective bargaining by challenge to results of election, delaying certification; pro-PEF flyers; confidential report to NYSUT Executive Committee from Sub-Committee on PEF re options for governance structure, n.d.