New York State Joint Legislature Committee on the Taylor Law Records
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Scope and Contents
Includes selected testimony, minutes of executive sessions, correspondence and the Committee's final report.
Testimony includes that of Victor Gotbaum, executive-director, District Council 37, American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees; Albert Shanker, president, United Federation of Teachers; Herbert Haber, director, New York City Office of Collective Bargaining; Ida Klaus, executive-director of staff relations for the New York City Board of Education; and Herbert H. Smith, executive-director, County Officers' Association. Also included are minutes of some of the Committee's executive sessions, its final report, and a fragment of routine correspondence.
The Major question before the Committee was whether public employees have the right to strike and, if not, should they be forced to submit to compulsory arbitration. Other issues included the agency shop, impasse procedures and proposed penalties for strikers and their unions.
Dates
- 1971
Creator
- New York (State). Legislature. Joint Committee on the Taylor Law (creator, Organization)
Language of Materials
Collection material in English
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Biographical / Historical
The New York State Joint Legislative Committee on the Taylor Law was appointed (1971) to study labor disputes involving public employees and, specifically, their right to strike.
In the fall of 1971, two years after a major New York teachers' strike, the New York legislature appointed a joint legislative committee to study proposed revisions of the Taylor Law which prohibited strikes by public employees.
The Committee consisted of Robert Helsby, Public Employment Relations Board; state Senators Theodore Day (chairman), Edward Lentol, John Flynn, Leon Giuffreda, Thomas Laverne, and Waldaba Stewart; and Assemblymen Stanley Herbst, Charles Jerabek, Chester Straub, and Clark C. Wemple. The Committee's staff was headed by Martin P. Catherwood.
Extent
1.5 cubic feet
Abstract
Include selected testimony, minutes of executive sessions, correspondence and the Committee's final report.
Quantity:
1.5 linear ft.
Forms of Material:
Testimonies .
General
- Contact Information:
- Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation and Archives Martin P. Catherwood Library 227 Ives Hall Cornell University Ithaca, NY 14853 (607) 255-3183> kheel_center@cornell.edu http://www.ilr.cornell.edu/library/kheel-center
- Compiled by:
- Kheel Staff, September 20, 2013
- EAD encoding:
- Randall Miles, February 21, 2017
- Civil service -- New York (State)
- Collective bargaining -- Government employees -- New York (State)
- Employee-management relations in government -- New York (State)
- New York (N.Y.). Board of Education
- State government employees -- New York (State)
- Strikes and lockouts -- Civil service -- New York (State)
- Title
- New York State Joint Legislature Committee on the Taylor Law Records
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Compiled by Kheel Staff
- Date
- February 21, 2017
- Language of description
- Undetermined
- Script of description
- Code for undetermined script
Revision Statements
- 02/23/2024: This resource was modified by the ArchivesSpace Preprocessor developed by the Harvard Library (https://github.com/harvard-library/archivesspace-preprocessor)
Repository Details
Part of the Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation & Archives Repository
227 Ives Hall
Ithaca NY 14853