Board of Directors Meeting, 1995

September 8-9, 1995 Agenda; President's Report; minutes of June 26-27 meeting; Executive Committee minutes of September 8; resolution re crisis in collective bargaining, with attached list of members of task force on local bargaining; proposed resolution granting pensions for NYSUT Board of Directors; special issue of AFT newsletter, Action, re standards of conduct and achievement, August 18, 1995; memo updating on "Lessons for Life" media campaign, with attached newspaper clippings; list of political action committee members, district assignments, and contact numbers; letter from Al Shanker to CEO of PepsiCo, Inc., urging company boycott of sweetener supplier A. E. Staley Manufacturing Company, noting anti-worker corporate behavior, lockout, August 14; NYSUT financial statements as of July 31; list of personnel activity (new hires, promotions, etc); tentative program and timeline for 1996 Representative Assembly; draft NYSUT employees' retirement plan amendments; testimony of Antonia Cortese, first vice president, NYSUT, to the Board of Regents and New York State Education Department at their 1996 Legislative Conference, September 13, 1995; memo re expiration of term of members of the Board of Regents, request from Cortese to NYSUT Board of Directors for names of potential replacements; materials re Goals 2000: Educate America Act grant applications; NYSUT Final Legislative Report, with cover memo to local presidents from NYSUT executive vice president Alan Lubin; NYSUT Division of Research and Educational Services monthly report; AFL-CIO state legislative advisory letter re attack on state prevailing wage law; other AFL flyers; 1995 NYSUT calendar for conferences and meetings; materials from the NYS Labor-Religion Coalition